Quotes About Relationship

Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.

God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera."

Love follows knowledge.

In the Glass family stories, the mother is portrayed as hungry for her son's correspondence and news. She is portrayed as insatiable for this, in fact, and for this reason her son Zooey is in a constant state of mortified retreat. This theme plays itself out in many of Salinger's stories, the reticent brother and son who doesn't keep in touch.

Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn't necessarily affect the transformation. She was there, and she was the whole city, and that's that.

It is finally only the fiend who doth truly worship God, as the felon adores the hangman, for the one is defined by the other.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

We trust as we love, and we trust where we love; if you love Christ much surely you will trust Him much.

Whenever people eat or drink together, it's communion.

Human freedom is created by God with a capacity for responsiveness to God.

Biblical teaching called for cohesive families whose happiness was based on the bonding of one female and one male in a durable relationship of covenant fidelity in love, committed to protect the life and well-being of their offspring. Fatherless children were the strongest argument against hedonic sexual experimentation.

the soul of conversation is sympathy

For it may be observed, generally, that wherever two thoughts stand related to each other by a law of antagonism, and exist, as it were, by mutual repulsion, they are apt to suggest each other.

Being in love with God is never boring.15

Although I often give in to my daughter, she is fully aware that I am the only one at home who will discipline her if she is naughty.

Girls are really resentful to their fathers when they don't get a chance to spend time with them, but now that my daughter knows everything I say damn near will come true or damn near is what it is, she loves me for that, she respects me for it, and I feel the same way with her.

I've had some friends that are actually homosexual. And, I mean, they know where I stand, and they know that I wouldn't have them anywhere near my children. But at the same time, they're people, and they're going to do their thing.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.

Sometimes you can just date without needing love, date for companionship, for passionate make-outs, for snuggling.

I think that anyone who lives in New York, who's lived here, who's spent any time here, knows that it's basically a love-hate relationship, you might say. Even though I still think it's the greatest city in the world and I wouldn't live anywhere else, there're still things about it one doesn't like. The love far outweighs the negative.

Obviously, Jo and I, as a couple, we just don't want to redline. You know, we don't want to run so hard after some dream or some goal only to find out that we've neglected the thing that means the very most to us, which is our marriage and our relationship.

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.