Quotes About Relationship

Bonhoeffer said it's not about hero worship, but intimacy with God.

He was used to her tears. They were a kind of language that needed expression.

I like being around the house with you,' he said. 'I like to be where you are.

couldn't imagine that God would be interested in me.' 'He's more than interested in you. It's a pretty radical notion, but he actually made us for himself, for his pleasure. He wants to hear from you anytime, about anything. Try to know that.

That way, you two can get to know

In Ephesians 5:28, we're told that he who loved his wife loves himself. In effect, a good marriage happens when the happiness of the other is essential to your own happiness. We might say that a good marriage is a contest of generosities. 'How wonderful that it's possible to ensure our own happiness by seeking the happiness of another.

She had called Cynthia then to come out and speak the truth, and Cynthia had uplifted and encouraged her.

Their counselor had taught them to pray before big talks, to be sensitive to timing.

Thank you for the joy and the sorrow he brings. Be with him always, to surround him with right influences, and when tests of any kind must come, give him wisdom and strength to act according to your will. Look over his mother, also, and the other children, wherever they are. Feed and clothe them, keep them from harm, and bring them one day into a full relationship with your Son.

That's why growing old together is lovely. You have someone to complain to.

It's as important to marry the right life as it is the right person.

And so I enjoyed the warm feelings, the stuff of the heart, when it was present between us, as it sometimes was, even in the beginning. And when it wasn't, there was the will to love him, something like . . . a generator kicking in, a backup.

God was in love with him, that he made us for himself.

I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heart--the very day I started speaking to His!

A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of a married couple is not exactly a whole human being: if the marriage is successful it is something a little more than that; if unsuccessful, a little less. In either case, a fresh complication is added to the already intricate business of friendship: as Clem had once remarked, you might as well try to dance a tarantella with a Siamese twin.

A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which one human being can offer to another in the midst of the devastating intimacy of a happy marriage.

Clem caught her eye across the table. It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.

forgetting that the one we are speaking with is a person, not a factory for granting wishes. He invites us to pray so we will engage him in conversation, and through conversation, get to know him.

Toen ik naast het bed ging zitten zei ze dat ik er goed uitzag en ik voelde me toen een soort ludieke ploert. Want ik was gezond en ik kon niets voor haar doen.

The thought of having another person constantly in my space and taking his feelings into account every time I made a decision was a level of overwhelming I might never be ready for.

They found that the day after a parental skirmish, most moms were able to compartmentalize and reported a quick recovery, and even an improved relationship with their child. But fathers had a much greater tendency to let the negative marital tension spill over into the rest of the family. Insidiously, the conflict from these parental fights would resurface on the first or even second day after the fight, in the form of friction between father and child.

I know, and I appreciate that," says Dinah, getting up to extract a container of yogurt from the fridge, which completes her improvised dinner—"but I have to say that I am really, really tired of having to ask you to do things.

Among siblings, deep affection and aggravation generally go hand in hand.

He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.