Quotes About Relationship

We love ourselves so much that we have little energy left to love the One who is love.

Toda la historia del mundo, desde la creación, nos anuncia que Dios toma el pecado muy en serio. Él envió a Su Hijo a lidiar con el pecado y a reconstruir el puente entre Dios y Sus criaturas. No puedes tomar en serio tu relación con Dios si no tomas en serio tu pecado.

People move from church to church as if the churches in their community are nothing more than ecclesiastical department stores. They're shopping for just the right preacher, women's ministry, youth ministry, or worship style. These Christians' relationship to the church mirrors my relationship to Macy's.

Many, many believers think of their church as a place to attend rather than something with which they are intimately involved.

He has invaded your marriage with his powerful love and transforming grace.

Maturity is about relationship to God that results in wise and humble living. Maturity of love for Christ expresses itself in love for others. Thankfulness for the grace of Christ expresses itself in grace to others. Gratitude for the patience and forgiveness of Christ enables you to be patient and forgiving toward others. It is your own daily experience of the rescue of the gospel that gives you a passion for people to experience the same rescue.

There is no faith that he will give them all they need to respond to each other in godly ways. As a result, their relationship is reduced to human demands, human performance, human failure, human judgment, and human punishment

If true humanity is bound up in community with God and godly community with others, I will never experience it when all my eyes ever see is my own need.

Sinners tend to move away from defining themselves in relationship to their Creator and begin defining themselves in relationship to the creation.

Met het verleden in mijn hand als een papiertje harlekijn, wanneer je aan het koordje trekt schieten armen en benen in beweging, je kan het ene niet stilleggen zonder het andere, op beklemmende wijze zit alles als een raderwerk met mekaar in verband.

Ultimately, we should all be seeking to use our time in ways that bring us the greatest overall pleasure and purpose for as long as possible. Just as you cannot recover time that is lost, you cannot recover happiness that is lost. Staying in a boring job or an annoying relationship simply prolongs the misery and any future happiness is unlikely to fully compensate for this loss. Lost happiness is lost forever.

three related ways: through the configurability of space, through the relationship of body to task, and through physical constraints.

The most relaxing word in our vocabulary is 'we'. Imagine being able to say 'we'. Most people are in no position to say 'we'.

In some instances, you may care so much about the person who has hurt you, or be so unable to be angry with him (or with anyone), that you rationalize his hurtful acts by finding some basis in your own actions for his hurtful behavior; you then feel guilty rather than angry. Put in other terms, you become angry with yourself rather than with the one who hurt you.

No important relationship survives if trust is totally lost.

Father Hugo M. Enomiya-Lassalle, a German Jesuit who spent most of his life in Japan and became a Zen teacher, said somewhere that the precondition for addressing God as a "you" is the realization that we shouldn't.

Buddhism has enabled me to identify and affirm what I have been sensing throughout the last few decades of my struggling spiritual life: that God is not an almighty, loving Somebody, a divine Personal Being with whom I have essentially the same kind of interpersonal relationship that I have with the other personal beings in my life.

with rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others—or, in a word, partnership.

One must love a cat on its own terms.

All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.

Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.

Estoy unido a ella por lazos que ni siquiera Dios puede romper. Un día, si una suave brisa le acaricia la mejilla, puede que sea mi aliento; y si una noche el fresco aire juega con su pelo, será mi espíritu el que pasa a su lado.

The goal (of psychotherapy) is for the patient to internalize the reparative relationship with their clinician. The Wall Street Journal

Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.