Quotes About Relationships

No amount of money or ideas can replace the value of being physically present, giving time and attention to people or projects.

life is richer when it is shared even with those who annoy us from time to time.

Sometimes what hurts more than your enemies hating you is your friends and family remaining silent in a time of need.

His disciples weren't just his roadies or work associates — they are his family. For Jesus, making disciples is about building a family. In one sentence, he completely redefines what family is, how it works, and what it's for.

MCs center their rhythms on growing in relationship with God (UP), with one another (IN), and with those they are reaching out to (OUT). This is community life centered on the Great Commandment and the Great Commission: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind soul and strength" (UP). "Love your neighbor as yourself" (IN). "Go and make disciples of all people groups" (OUT).

Many faith communities have become little more than gatherings of isolated individuals, while the number of online communities continues to grow.

A Missional Community is a group of approximately 20 to 40 people who are seeking to reach a particular neighborhood or network of relationships with the good news of Jesus. The group functions as a flexible, local expression of the church and has the expressed intention of seeing those they are in relationship with become followers of Jesus with them. They exist to see God's Kingdom come to their friends and neighbors.

Effective discipleship builds the church, not the other way around. We need to understand the church as the effect of discipleship and not the cause. If

For many churches, as they seek to create comfortable environments in the form of worship services or small groups, have lost their ability to challenge people in meaningful ways. Challenge may be given from the pulpit or stage on Sunday mornings, but challenge is always given best in the context of personal relationships. We

We are a society of disconnected people longing for connections.

Effective discipleship builds the church, not the other way around. We need to understand the church as the effect of discipleship and not the cause.

He who mistreats his own family is not to be trusted as a friend.

Understanding that one's worthiness need not be earned. Learning that hearing or saying no is neither a denial of love nor inappropriately selfish. Realizing that it's no one's job or responsibility to save or redeem another. Considering that there's no such thing as a one-and-only "soul mate." Discovering that self-love needs to come before loving others. Finding that being happy and living in peace does not require sadness and violence.

And never again will you put off your own happiness when those you love choose to be unhappy.

Maybe it's not just about finding the perfect friend, partner, or tribe, but finding the perfection in those you've already found.

Nothing made sense, except for how much you loved someone.

Continue to dig, continue to uncover the delights hidden within yourself, within the experience of life, within relationships and unions with others. Explore it all with the wonder, amazement, and curiosity of a child, even when those things that are uncovered are not desirable, for it is in the discovery of them that you can set them free.

Forgiveness is only necessary when first there's blame.

does anybody know what love is, or what love can do, how it kills, and brings pain, I know its called "life"

I don't know nothing about no marriages or nothing. I ain't even never been to a wedding.

These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.

People were sitting together, talking and telling stories face-to-face again, instead of staring at a cell phone screens while texting or chatting with someone else hundreds of miles away while ignoring the ones they were with.

who never thought to give her a call, even though, it seemed, they lived their entire lives through their phones.

The difference between our love and the love you have for her is like the difference between knowing something in your head and knowing something in your heart. In your head, you think you love me because we see the world the same way, we feel the same things - in a way we're almost like twins - but what you and her have is much more special because it's not about what you have in common, it's about the way she makes you feel in your heart. And the heart wins every time.