Quotes About Relationship

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly

The deepest dependency is not of students upon teachers, but of teachers upon students.

Paul doesn't call followers of Jesus "Christians." He calls them "in Christ." That isn't the easiest thing to understand, let alone explain, but it suggests an intimacy with Jesus that defies words. That intimacy also includes—somehow—suffering.

Being "in" with God is about much more than the thoughts we keep in our heads, the belief systems we hold on to, the doctrines we recite, or the statements of faith we adhere to, no matter how fervently and genuinely we do so, and how important they may be.

Sticking to the Bible at every turn, like it's an owner's manual or book of instruction, as the way to know God misses what Paul and the rest of the New Testament writers show us again and again: the words on the page of the Bible don't drive the story, Jesus does. Jesus is bigger than the Bible. For

I believe that God is more interested in the who. And that means walking the walk, not just talking the talk. Better: it means walking the walk when no words are left. That is trust.

followers of Jesus always have and always will meet Jesus and see him from where they are and they will experience Jesus differently as a result.

They were writing and reading these stories to understand their own relationship with God.

I still think and talk about what I think God is like, but I've hopefully learned (feel free to keep me honest here, people) that being right and winning isn't the endgame here. Loving as God loves is.

I am seeking to live into the sacred space of God's Presence with curiosity, hope, peace, and love of others. I believe this is the type of relationship God seeks to have with us.

I have come to think, as have so many others in the course of history, that the goal of Christian faith is the experience of God, not the comprehension of God.

This is how they connected with God—in their time, in their way.

He'd never made a move on her in those three weeks.

Thousands of years of solitude. Eons of running from the grief of his passing. And now here he was, pressed up against her again

It remained a source of mild shame that he'd never quite realized just how knowledgeable his wife was in her field.

He'd have to fuck her, but it was cheap rent.

One of them is your ex-wife, and we know she didn't do it.

Greg weighed up her personality, figuring how to make his play.

Besides, she was only a kid, she needed him.

attachment relationship between infant and caregiver is itself an affective bond.

we see the self as originally an extension of experience of the other.

provides empirical support for the notion that an infant's sense of self emerges from the affective quality of relationship with the primary caregiver.

The unchallenged maintenance of a bond is experienced as a source of security and the renewal of a bond as a source of

issues of policy as well. They hit it off