Quotes About Relationship

He had the theological dexterity of a gymnast, but he lived like a relational paraplegic.

Human marriage is only an illustration of our union with Christ. God ordained marriage to help us understand what it means to be in relationship with him.

Does it surprise you that God presents himself as a model for human community?

Sin's self-centeredness cuts us off from God and others

God will dwell in community with his people so that they can know community with one another

The perfect, eternal love relationship between Father, Son, and Spirit was ripped apart to allow us to be restored to God and reconciled to one another.

The Bible reminds us that God wants—and deserves—to be the defining center of both these things. When I live out of a biblical sense of who I am (identity) and rest in who God is (worship), I will be able to build a healthy relationship with you. These are not abstract theological concepts. We're talking about the content and character of our hearts.

The circle of human community is only healthy when it exists within the larger circle of community with God.

In God's plan, this quest for personal identity is meant to drive us back to him as Creator so that we find our meaning and purpose in him.

Christ brings the assets. We bring the liabilities. Yet Christ still joins himself to us!

Look at your relationship to money. What does it tell you about your relationship to God?

To what degree is the kingdom of God driving your life? Our money is an intensely personal part of our lives, and only an intensely personal relationship with the Redeemer can loosen our grasp on other things.

is very aware of the other's sin and working hard to get the other to see it too.

When I live out of a biblical sense of who I am (identity) and rest in who God is (worship), I will be able to build a healthy relationship with you.

If I am married to Christ, the core of my present life is not personal happiness, but spiritual purity.

As we live with each other in the middle of the already and the not yet, we need more than elevated emotion and accurate understanding. We need eyes to see this one amazing reality: we are Christ's and he is ours. We need to see that it is spiritually impossible for us to ever be alone. His amazing resources of grace are constantly at our disposal.

To love you as I should, I must worship God as Savior

If you are a believer, you are in the process of being remade to reflect the character of Jesus himself. And your Lord is employing every circumstance and relationship in your life to accomplish that goal.

Our template or road map is Ephesians 4. As you read it, ask yourself what it says about (1) the struggle of self-interest and (2) God's agenda for our relationships. This passage will be the grid you can use to look at the issues of relationship we address in this book.

You are either speaking as a mini-king, seeking to establish your will in your relationships and circumstances; or you are speaking as an ambassador, seeking to be part of what the King is doing. There

My panic was about more than being overwhelmed in my responsibilities; it revealed a lack of trust in God. We can't move toward community with one another until we have been drawn into community with God.

the reality our imagination embraces is the reality we will live by. If we are not captured by the truth of living in a deeply personal relationship with God, we will shrink our expectations and dreams down to the size of our own selfish wants, desires, and strategies.

However, problems arose when we, as two leaders who had known each other only from a safe distance, began working together in the same room!

You see, this is what you always do. I come to you and you turn the table on me. You are so good at making other people feel guilty for your failures!