Quotes About Relationship

We want to take our rugged individualism and turn it into a rugged covenantalism.

It's strange how just the sound of my dad's feet, the murmur of his voice, can change everything. Thing is, for all I know he could be in a good mood. It's just that I've learned to assume the worst.

Quite a sight," Mary finally said, and I felt like maybe she was sincere, that we were something to behold.

It was so nice to hear her voice, to hear her voice and listen to her talk about what she wanted. I never quite knew what I wanted, the letters I sent her so wishy-washy and pained. Madison, she fucking wanted stuff. And when she talked or wrote about it, with that intensity, you wanted to give it to her. You wanted her to have it. And it was so easy, I was in love with her again, the routine of our relationship, that she would hurt me, but I would allow it. I would live with it.

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything

It is the extramarital love affair that destroys a marriage, not extramarital sex with a prostitute.

Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.

Because if something does go wrong, you'll need what you're feeling to matter, to someone somewhere, anyway.

But he had loved her, or thought he did, and that had brought her, sputtering and gasping, above the surface of his self-regard. The dreamer's sheen and the power of his passion had for a time attracted her, but in the end she had not wanted a life spent treading water in his story.

Courting is a much sweeter term than 'dating'. It sounds like it has more intent, more like an agreement that two people enter into with a future in mind.

She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.

Marriage is a long conversation, someone once said, and maybe so is a rock band's life. A few minutes later, both were done.

When women break up, more than half the time what we man is, "I need this relationship to change." Or, "I need you to change." When men break up, what they mean is, "I want to break up.

You want the foolproof test to see if you're in a good relationship? Tell the person the thing that you're most afraid to tell them. Then see how they react.

I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors.

My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together.

There was at time in my life where all I wanted was a relationship, and I thought that was the most important thing.

Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.

God created us to know Him and pursue a growing relationship with Him daily. Out of that relationship pours the overflow, the river of His love that joins us to Him and each other.

He was a dog, but once you get to know them and you look deep into their eyes, year after year, you no longer see an animal; instead you begin to see the depth of any human capability of emotion. It is given freely, and the wealth of comfort it brings cannot be completely understood until it is taken from you.

What does my soul need, Papa? What every soul needs. Right relationship with God. ... Seek Him and His righteousness, my darling daughter, instead of pursuing your own wants. He will fulfill you in ways no human relationship could. When you put Him first in your life, before beaus and jobs and motherhood, then all else can fall into place. And only then will you be at peace with yourself and with others.

You, offend me?" He let a soft chuckle roll. "Not likely." Then he forced an apologetic grimace. "But I figure my taking off offended you. So would you let me make it up to you? I'd like to take you to supper tonight." She looked surprised. And a little nervous. Maybe he was moving too fast. "Or tomorrow," he said, "if that suits you better." "N-no. Tonight . . . would be fine.

You be 'memberin' what the Good Book says 'bout how we is to love. Seems to me there be a verse 'bout a man lovin' his woman the way Jesus loves the church. Would Jesus be a-hollerin' right now or would He be tender?

Well, now, what do you expect? You're His child. Of course you're going to be lonely when you hold yourself from Him.