Quotes About Relationships

Love means will-to-good, willing the benefit of what or who is loved. We may say we love chocolate cake, but we don't. Rather, we want to eat it. That is desire, not love. In our culture we have a great problem distinguishing between love and desire, but it is essential that we do so.

They spend their whole earthly existence trying to save, enhance, and enrich their lives. And what happens? They lose the most important things in their life: an intimate relationship with God and with others.

External, social arrangements may be useful to this end, but they are not the end, nor are they a fundamental part of the means.

But—for good reasons rooted deeply in the nature of the person and of personal relationships—his preferred way is to speak, to communicate: thus the absolute centrality of scripture to our discipleship. And this, among other things, is the reason why an extensive use of solitude and silence is so basic for growth of the human spirit, for they form an appropriate context for listening and speaking to God.1

The simple program of Christ for winning the whole world is to make each person he touches magnetic enough with love to draw others. FRANK LAUBACH, MAN OF PRAYER

And we and the public are constantly confronted with professing Christians who, to say the least, do not love one another, but may clearly hate and despise or be indifferent to those around them.

Beyond my immediate context of relationships, the central question my friends and I began asking was quite simple: How could the soul health and transformation available to us become normative in our experience as a church community? While such experience of soul transformation has certainly been normative in seasons throughout history and even today, it is largely absent, or at least rare and idiosyncratic, in many environments where I have served.

Most families would be healthier and happier if their members treated one another with the respect they would give to a perfect stranger. C. S. Lewis's discussion of storge, familial love, is endlessly instructive on this point and is required reading for all who intend to have a decent family life.1 He notes that he has "been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parent.

Mark 12 lists every dimension under the governance of Jesus' love.

good unless others are responsible.

The other idea is, "I love you, and I will serve you by doing what is good for you, whether you want it or not.

de amar a Dios con todo nuestro ser, y ello por la belleza de Dios que se nos da en Cristo. Este es el segundo movimiento en respuesta al amor: «Nosotros amamos, porque Él nos amó primero.» Pero el segundo movimiento es inseparable del tercero: nuestro amor hacia quienes aman a Dios. «Si nos amamos

Too often our "love" for family members is domination in disguise.

We have a terrible time understanding love, because we confuse it with desire. Desire and love are two utterly different kinds of things. Not only is desire not love; it is often opposed to love. Right action is the act of love, regardless of the desires of anyone involved.

2) The reason for looking inside is not to effect direct change of negative emotions to positive emotions. Instead, we are to listen to and ponder what we feel in order to be moved to the far deeper issue of what our hearts are doing with God and others.

If you love the unlovable, let another person's desires take precedence over your own, or even worse, love someone who has hurt you, then you are likely love addicted, codependent, and emotionally unhealthy.

People often think they can hate some people and love others fully, but it's hard. Love and hate can't live in the same heart.

Lord Jealous.

Love is a private thing. The world does not need to know.

Misunderstanding breeds distrust

We are the sum of the interactions taking place within the mechanism.

We don't have only so much to share. Our hearts create love as we need it.

Des situations dramatiques peuvent tisser entre deux personnes des liens que des décennies de vie commune ne seraient pas parvenues à créer.

Love truly is not a finite emotion, she realized. It can be generated spontaneously out of nothing at all.