Quotes About Relationship

I remind myself that prayer means keeping company with God who is already present.

For Jesus, the person was more important than any category or label.

Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative. Instead of waiting for his neighbor to make the first move

Legalism may "work" in an institution such as a Bible college or the Marine Corps. In a world of ungrace, structured shame has considerable power. But there is a cost, an incalculable cost: ungrace does not work in a relationship with God. I have come to see legalism in its pursuit of false purity as an elaborate scheme of grace avoidance. You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it

Dios no le importa tanto que lo analicemos. Principalmente, lo que quiere es que lo amemos.

When a couple encounters a crisis, it magnifies what's already present in the relationship.

We'll stay true to God only if our love becomes a decision.

Every hour or so she asks how I'm feeling, and I hear her giving reports on the phone to her friends. "He's doing better today. A little trouper, doesn't complain at all." I like hearing her talk about me, as if I matter.

grace means there is nothing I can do to make God love me more, and nothing I can do to make God love me less.

Charles Williams loved his son with reservations, complaining that a child is a guest of a somewhat inconsistent temperament, rather difficult to get rid of, almost pushing; a poor relation rather than a pleasant kind.

Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.

For he loved her and he understood that a woman cannot always live as a man. He understood that she cannot always think as he thought, walk as he walked, breathe the air that he took in. She would always be a different being from him, listening to a different music, hearing a different sound, familiar with a different element.

I am, at this moment, what I have always been to him: an object of beauty. He has never loved me as a woman.

It is luck to love someone who is free to love you in return.

I will make my own future, not predict it. I don't need a charm to tell me what I hope will happen. I throw the gold charm which is like a wedding ring up in the air and catch it before it falls. This is my choice. I don't need magic to reveal my desire. The enchantment is already done: I am in love; I am sworn to a man of earth; I am not going to give this man up. All I have to do is consider how we can stay together.

Keep him coming forward but never let him think that you come forward yourself. He wants to feel that he is pursuing you, not that you are entrapping him. When he gives you the choice of coming forward or running away, like then—you must always run away.But don't run too fast. Remember he has to catch you.

I am marrying the finest man I have ever known." "It will cost you dear," he warns. "It would be worse to lose him.

Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You will be his wife; that is to be his servant, his possession. He will be your master. You had better please him.

She's like an anchor that he has forgotten, but still it keeps him steady.

My advice to you, as you go to your husband, is never to trust him and never love him more than he loves you.

A woman who loved him would have to learn obedience, and I was not yet ready to be an obedient wife.

And it seems to me that there is nothing more likely to cure a woman of lust than marriage. Now I understand what the saint meant when he said that it was better to marry than to burn. In my experience, if you marry, you certainly won't burn.

I could not love this man, knowing that he would not listen to me, knowing that I was not allowed even to show him my sadness. He was the father of my children and yet he would have no interest in them until they were old enough for him to use as counters in the game of inheritance. He had been my lover for years and yet it had been my task to make sure that he never knew me.

They are a couple in love, and anyone but a fool would see it is simply that, nothing more- and certainly nothing less.