Quotes About Relationship

we demean God by considering him a cosmic boss who orders humans around

That is one reason it is hard to get people to pray at church and why prayer meetings are often dead. People don't see that prayer—real, two-way conversation with God—makes any difference. If

invite Jesus into each new situation or interaction.

Nowhere is it more important to be in a conversational relationship with God than in our prayer life.

our relationship with Jesus, which he argued ultimately allows us to establish a relationship with the kingdom of God. This relationship is one of discipleship in which we learn to live our lives as Jesus would through progressively embodying and manifesting a Christlike character, which is attained through establishing a discipling relationship to Jesus.

Sit in the companionship of God—the one who shows up and can be seen.

The heart, or will, simply is spirit in human beings. It is the human spirit, and the only thing in us that God will accept as the basis of our relationship to him. It is the spiritual plane of our natural existence, the place of truth before God, from where alone our whole lives can become eternal.

If we do seek him, he will certainly find us, and then we, ever more deeply, find him.

The Bible is the unique written Word of God. It is inerrant in its original form and infallible in all of its forms for the purpose of guiding you into a life-saving relationship with God in His kingdom. The Bible contains a body of knowledge without which human beings cannot survive. It reliably fixes the boundaries of everything God will ever say to humankind.

But responsibility and initiative are the heart of our relationship with God. We are not robots, and he does not work with robots.

If a law had been given capable of bringing people to life," Paul said, "then righteousness would have come from that law" (Gal. 3:21). But law, for all its magnificence, cannot do that. Graceful relationship sustained with the masterful Christ certainly can.

Every emotion, though horizontally provoked, nevertheless reflects something about the vertical dimension: our relationship with God.

We are not machines that can be repaired through a series of steps—we are relational beings who are transformed by the mystery of relationship.

if we view difficult emotions as problems to be solved, we will end up looking for answers that will work rather than pursuing relationship with God, regardless of immediate outcome. A determination to resolve our emotional struggles inevitably subordinates God as a servant of our healing rather than a Person to be praised.

Marriage requires a radical commitment to love our spouses as they are, while longing for them to be what they are not yet. Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another's glory or toward degrading each other.

What might it look like if we lived as if we will not be endlessly divided from those who have brought us harm and whom we have failed as well?

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

Langdon held her tighter. You start small. You take that first tiny step. you trust me.

Early humans," Langdon lectured on-screen, "had a relationship of wonder with their universe, especially with those phenomena they could not rationally understand.

I know you want to run, but I'm not going to let you. Sooner or later you need to start trusting someone.

I reject monogamy as an affront to evolution.

But most important... what kind of father can look his own son in the eyes... even after all these years... and not even recognize him?

obligate endosymbiosis

The type of person who will always be your friend, for as long as you can stand to keep disappointing her.