Quotes About Relationships

Our Love has slowly slipped away,Our Love has seen its better day.

We forget that God's primary goal ia not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself. Every painful thing we experience in relationships is meant to remind us of our need for God. And every good thing we experience is meant to be a metaphor of what we can only find in Him.... We settle for the satisfaction of human relationships when they were meant to point us to the perfect relational satisfaction found only with God.

Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God, dissatisfied that he hasn't done something and placing myself in his position as judge.

When your ears hear and your eyes see the sin, weakness, or failure of your husband or wife, it is never an accident; it is always grace. God loves your spouse, and he is committed to transforming him or her by his grace, and he has chosen you to be one of his regular tools of change.

You will treat the weaknesses and failures of others with grace when you humbly admit that you're more like them than unlike them.

When your ears hear and your eyes see the sin, weakness, or failure of your husband or wife, it is never an accident; it is always grace. God loves your spouse, and he is committed to transforming him or her by his grace, and he has chosen you to be one of his regular tools of change. So, he will cause you to see, hear, and experience your spouse's need for change so that you can be an agent of his rescue.

Human beings are always assigning to themselves some kind of identity. There are only two places to look. Either you will be getting your identity vertically, from who you are in Christ, or you will be shopping for it horizontally in the situations, experiences, and relationships of your daily life. This

Truth that is not spoken in love ceases to be truth because it is twisted by other human agendas. Love that is not guided by truth ceases to be love because it is divorced from God's agenda. Once

When someone who knows you points out a sin, a weakness, or a failure, are you thankful?

Either you will be getting your identity vertically, from who you are in Christ, or you will be shopping for it horizontally in the situations, experiences, and relationships of your daily life.

God owns our relationships—we do not—and that he has a higher purpose for them than we do.

A joyful life of grace toward others grows best in the soil of gratitude.

Human relationships are most satisfying when we enter them not just to please ourselves or even the other person, but to please God.

Parenting is about being God's ambassadors in the lives of our children.

when you forget the grace that you've been given, it becomes very easy to respond to the people around you with nongrace.

God designed us to live in community, first with him and then with one another.

Without knowing it, we put our identity and inner peace in the hands of the people around us. We look to them for what no flawed human being will ever be able to deliver. We ride the roller coaster of their views of us. We begin to do things not because they are right, but because we know they will please those whose opinion of us and acceptance of us mean more than they should.

The appropriateness of my responses to others is directly related to the accuracy of my view of myself, and for that there is grace too.

The desire for the love of another person is not wrong, but it must not rule your heart.

The call is to do theology in loving community with other people. Truth not spoken in love ceases to be true because it's bent and twisted by other human agendas.

Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. (James 1:19)

Theology without love is simply very bad theology.

How often do you see people as obstacles to ministry rather than the objects of it?