Quotes About Relationship

The main purpose of prayer is not to make life easier, nor to gain magical powers, but to know God.

Herein lies the most solemn challenge facing Christians who want to communicate their faith: if we do not live in a way that draws others to the faith rather than repels them, none of our words will matter.

They [Old Testament] taught me about Life with God: not how it is supposed to work, but how it actually does work.

only love can summon a response of love, which is the one thing God wants from us and the reason he created us.

Prayer means keeping company with God who is already present.

Author Stephen Brown notes that a veterinarian can learn a lot about a dog owner he has never met just by observing the dog. What does the world learn about God by watching us his followers on earth?

To pray is to walk in the full light of God, and to say simply, without holding back, 'I am human and you are God.

We do not pray to tell God what he does not know, nor to remind him of things he has forgotten. He already cares for the things we pray about... He has simply been waiting for us to care about them with him.

We pray because we can't help it. The

En cambio, Jesucristo nunca obligó a nadie a creer en él. Prefería actuar por medio de la atracción, sacando a los humanos de sí mismos para atraerlos hacia él.

When the church joined with the state, it tended to wield power rather than dispense grace.

When I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack of presence.

Because of Jesus we need never question God's desire for intimacy. Does God really want close contact with us? Jesus gave up Heaven for it.

I do not get to know God, then do God's will; I get to know God by doing that will.

As a committed Christian, I wanted to discover what adjustments we might need to make in order to communicate the good news to our friends, neighbors, coworkers.

God's arms are always extended; we are the ones who turn away.

I do "good works" for my wife not in order to earn credit but to express my love for her. Likewise, God wants me to serve "in the new way of the Spirit": not out of compulsion but out of desire.

And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire.

A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.

Apart from the requirement that we be authentic before God, there is no prescribed way to pray. Each of us presents a unique mix of personality, outlook, training, gifts, and weaknesses, as well as a unique history with church and with God. As Roberta Bondi says, "If you are praying, you are already 'doing it right.

We cannot make Him visible to us, but we can make ourselves visible to Him," said Abraham Joshua Heschel

Author Stephen Brown notes that a veterinarian can learn a lot about a dog owner he has never met just by observing the dog. What does the world learn about God by watching us his followers

God welcomes home anyone who will have him and, in fact, has made the first move already.

for the resulting chasms of ungrace there is only one remedy: the frail rope-bridge of forgiveness