Quotes About Relationships

Do people regularly feel bruised in their relationship with you?

I want all of our talk to be redemptively constructive, from the most mundane details to the huge life decisions.

We enter relationships for personal pleasure, self-actualization, and fun. We want low personal cost and high self-defined returns. But God wants high personal cost and high God-defined returns.

Confronting a teenager five minutes before she leaves for school is not helpful, even if the content is accurate. Rebuking a friend for an offense in front of others is not helpful. Asking your husband to consider how you hurt him as he is trying to get to sleep is not helpful.

we all must remember that our relationships have been designed as workrooms for redemption, not shelters for human happiness.

Relationships are costly, but so is avoiding them. If

At some point, every relationship brings you to the end of yourself, and with God there is no healthier place to be. When I am willing to confess how weak I am, I am most ready to reach out for the grace that can only be found in Christ. He was willing to follow his Father's plan and become weak so that, in our moments of weakness, we could receive his strength.

This is the ground on which we build all relationships. Every time you are tempted to shun another believer, remember that the Father, Son, and Spirit were torn asunder so that you might be united.

Without a biblical model to explain the place relationships should have in your life, you will likely experience imbalance, confusion, conflicting desires, and general frustration.

Who is God using in your life this way?

God is the only properly functioning community in the universe

This side of heaven, relationships and ministry are always shaped in the forge of struggle.

But on the other, Kurt had left her feeling betrayed. She didn't think she would ever get over it. She wondered whether relationships were worth the risk of this kind of pain.

Your answers to these basic questions can show you how your family shaped your views on relating to others.

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself. When

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

Pursuing comfortable relationships and avoiding difficult ones

Blowing up at people when our agendas are trampled

When we choose to practice true forgiveness, the relationship is not just brought back to where it was before the offense; it actually moves further down the road to maturity.

mess. This side of heaven, relationships and ministry are always shaped in the forge of struggle. None of us get to relate to perfect people or avoid the effects of the fall on the work we attempt to do. Yet, amid the mess, we find the highest joys of relationship and ministry.

Genesis 2 is not speaking primarily to Adam's experience of being lonely as much as it is revealing his nature as the person God created him to be. Because God created a communal being—someone designed for relationships—creation is incomplete without a suitable companion.

Forgiveness Is Costly, But Not Forgiving Is More Costly

Real change does not take place until it is visible in our lives and our relationships.

If you want to enjoy any progress or blessing in your relationships, it will require you to admit your sin humbly and commit yourself to the work they require.