Quotes About Relationships

A failure to forgive someone will change you

Each of us is tempted to make relationships the end rather than the means

relationships when they were meant to point us to the perfect relational satisfaction found only with God.

I need to keep practicing forgiveness every time I see you or think of you.

The health and maturity of a relationship are not measured by an absence of problems, but by the way the inevitable problems are handled.

Jesus was willing to be the forsaken brother so that we could have godly relationships. Jesus was willing to be the crucified King so that our communities would experience peace.

Forgiveness has a vertical and a horizontal dimension

The hope of the gospel invites us to a holy dissatisfaction with all of our relationships, even—especially—those with few major problems.

I loved my family, but that night in the car I hit the wall of the reality of relationships in a fallen world.

Why bother with other people?

Mark 11:25 is talking about forgiveness as a heart attitude before God.

They have all faced the difficulty of having relationships with flawed people in a broken world, and they have opted to check out.

Yet something keeps dragging us back to other people. We know we are less than human when we are all alone.

We live with this tension between self-protective isolation and the dream for meaningful relationships.

Luke 17:3, on the other hand, is talking about forgiveness as a horizontal transaction between me and the offender. This is often referred to as reconciliation.

If you are meant to be together, loving each other should be easy.

In the most dangerous of times, those who escape and survive generally know people whom they can trust. Having old friends is the politics of lost resort. And making new ones is the first step toward change.

Make eye contact and small talk.

If we have no control over who reads what and when, we have no ability to act in the present or plan for the future. Whoever can pierce your privacy can humiliate you and disrupt your relationships at will.

Whoever can pierce your privacy can humiliate you and disrupt your relationships at will. No

Sharing in an undertaking teaches us that we can trust people beyond a narrow circle of friends and families, and helps us to recognize authorities from whom we can learn. The

Having old friends is the politics of last resort.

Whoever can pierce your privacy can humiliate you and disrupt your relationships at will. No one (except perhaps a tyrant) has a private life that can survive public exposure by hostile directive.

Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.