Quotes About Relationships

My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. (John 15:9 – 12)

we must not confuse the disease to please with the command to love.

Love can be unconditional but relational access never should be

I realized that neither Paul nor Barnabas were bad people. They were good people. But they weren't good together. And that's okay. It's so much healthier to be brave enough to go your separate ways than to keep stuffing and drown in a sea of bitterness.

Raw emotions — anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment — are the feelings we tend to hide from people we want to impress but spew on those we love the most.

I can't expect a perfection in others I'm not even capable of living out myself.

had the wrong notion that to be a Christian requires that we believe the best no matter what. That it's unkind to draw boundaries. That it's noble and commendable to stay in a relationship no matter what. I no longer believe that.

He who has loved often ... has loved never.

Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him.

Do not associate with the lowly: If you must, with the mighty make friends: For the cobra, having Vishnu's protection, Inquired fondly after the Garuda's health! -----From the Sanskrit, cited in Birds and Birdsong

Everything affects everything else, and you have to understand that whole web of connections.

Wasn't that the terrible lesson of her life? Who can ever really know anyone?

If you want a good litmus test of your spiritual growth, simply examine the nature and quality of your relationships with others.

Crisis or transition of any kind reminds us of what matters most. In the routine of life, we often take our families-our parents and children and siblings-for granted. But in times of danger and need and change, there is no question that what we care about most is our families! It will be even more so when we leave this life and enter into the spirit world. Surely the first people we will seek to find there will be father, mother, spouse, children, and siblings.

Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truely loves does so because of a decision to love. This person has made a commitment to be loving whether or not the loving feeling is present. ...Conversely, it is not only possible but necessary for a loving person to avoid acting on feelings of love.

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.

Of course, I had my heart broken as a teen. I was desperately in love with myself. Then I found out that I was completely shallow. I haven't spoken to myself since.

Lots of women are doing time for love and fear.

town. Tracy was living the dream. Here it was, not five months before Doug Benton would turn up missing, and Tracy and Doug were in love, riding, lifting weights side-by-side, dining out with her daughter and taking walks in the park hand-in-hand. It seemed as if they'd carved out a piece of life's bliss. Doug had been married and divorced twice. Tracy had come from a few tumultuous relationships and marriages herself. Neither had given up on romance, Tracy said,

Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height.

Husbands are always angry, that's their nature. And the nature of us women is not to pay a blind bit of notice.