Quotes About Relationship

To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf.

Wars end when nations agree that war is an unsatisfactory instrument for solving their dispute; wars begin when nations agree that peaceful diplomacy is an unsatisfactory instrument for solving their dispute. Agreement is the essence of the transition from peace to war and from war to peace, for those are merely alternating phases of a relationship between nations.

"My lige lady, generally," quod he,"Wommen desiren have sovereyneteeAs well over hir housbond as hir love."

It is no childes pleyTo take a wyf withouten avysement.

Servant in love and lord in marriage.

She was a worthy womman al hit lyve,Housbondes at chirche dore she hadde fyve.

One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I'd guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.

One who's our friend is fond of us one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.

Good food ends with good talk.

If we can keep the Christians thinking of themselves as sinners not sons and daughters, we can make them view their relationship to The Adversary as a negative-sum-game: They fall in a hole, He pulls them out, they fall back in, etc... That way they never get anywhere; they're always either standing next to a hole or down in it.

The Adversary, of course, simply wants them to lay down their sins, guilt and all, and follow Him. But this type holds on to their sinfulness and their guilt for it, because otherwise, they'd have no relationship with Him at all. And, of course, no relationship can be based on guilt and survive.

I've seen a disobedient client simply turn his attention toward The Adversary and ask "Are You still there?" and suddenly all was made well between them.

Joy is that paradox where a man so trusts, is so enraptured, as to be caught up and lost in the other, while at the same time, being utterly known by the other, thus utterly himself.

So in a man's mind, he appraises, negotiates, defines, delineates, weighs the information, and that includes God. As you can see, this is a relationship of management, not trust. You don't trust things you can manage, you manage them. And so, God as information is managed and no relationship of trust is fostered.

Now they feel not only known and still loved, but also loved because they are known.

True Prayer is the work of relationship, where He moves them from mere information about Him to a one-on-one experience with Him, so that now when they talk about "knowing God," they mean more than, "I understand what you're saying about God," but also, "It fits my experience of Him.

Disciples by their very nature are prone to misconceptions, projections, illusions, and delusions that prevent or delay a constructive relationship with the guru. Therefore the guru is primarily responsible for providing a viable avenue of self-transcending discipline for the disciple.

The key, of course, is loving the churchless for who they are rather than for what they can offer our church

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Julian and Jake sitting in a tree K I S S I N G, first comes love then comes sex then comes baby smoking!

Say Goodnight Gracie.

If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.