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Quotes About Relationship

The shift in focus from "I" to "we" in a marriage is just as important as important as the shift in focus from "I" to "we" in an organisation, community and society.
~ Richard Barrett
If Jacob is now to find himself apart from his family, if he is to find who he can be in this newly uncertain world in which he is alone, he must also now find God as his own God. Not that he thinks of this for himself. It is not Jacob who turns to God but God who turns to Jacob.
~ Richard Bauckham
There is a great deal of duty that husband and wife owe to one another, such as to instruct, admonish, pray, watch over one another, and be continual helpers to each other in order to their everlasting happiness; they must also patiently bear with the infirmities of each other.
~ Richard Baxter
And he got to this woman, came up from behind ... ("So, folks, look me over. If you like what you see ...") and gently, but decidedly, he put his hands on her. In Council Bluffs, Iowa! He got both hands onto her shoulders, while he talked to the crowd over her head, like it was her and him, through thick and thin.
~ Richard Ben Cramer
The next time American pilots bailed out into the hands of Communist troops was in Korea about five years later, and the reception this time was imprisonment and torture, which makes the level of wartime cooperation all the more amazing and the decline of the relationship into enmity all the more shocking and costly.
~ Richard Bernstein
Anyone who enters into an intimate relationship with God can see God do exceptional things through his or her life.
~ Richard Blackaby
Spiritual leaders must help their people see beyond God's acts to recognize the way God consistently works with his people, time and time again. To do this, spiritual leaders must develop their own understanding and recognition of God's activity in their midst.
~ Richard Blackaby
3But You, O LORD, dknow me; You have seen me, And You have etested my heart toward You.
~ Richard Blackaby
Whenever it seems that God is not doing anything fresh in your life, focus on the love relationship and stay there until God gives you a new assignment.
~ Richard Blackaby
I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.
~ Richard Brautigan
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
SIR OLIVER. Egad so He does — mercy on me — He's greatly altered — and seems to have a settled married look — one may read Husband in his Face at this Distance.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Taking care of your marriage and your partner is an act of love for your children.
~ Richard Bromfield
She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional.
~ Richard Brookhiser
Prayer is not a tool of faith by which we control His control over our lives. Rather, it is the conversation God began with us when He established a relationship with us in Baptism.
~ Richard C. Eyer
True happiness comes not when we get rid of all of our problems,but when we change our relationship to them, when we see our problems as a potential source of awakening, opportunities to practice, and to learn.
~ Richard Carlson
God's curse on the man draws him unwholesomely away from the woman, even as God's curse on the woman draws her unwholesomely toward the man. This is why most marital counseling sessions are some variation on this theme: Wife-"You don't pay any attention to me." Husband-"You are too demanding and nag too much." God has cursed the marriage relationship with a poisonous desire for control by the woman and a self-absorbed focus outside the relationship by the man.
~ Richard D. Phillips
Why would God do this?" you may ask. If God loved Adam and Eve, why didn't he just forgive them and restore them to blessing? Because God's gifts cannot be enjoyed without obedience to him as the Giver. In sin, Adam and Eve would seek to find love with each other in the absence of love for God, and in God's creation this simply cannot work.
~ Richard D. Phillips
Love between a man and a woman simply cannot work without love for God at the center of the relationship; by means of his curses, God mercifully brings
~ Richard D. Phillips
Love between a man and a woman simply cannot work without love for God at the center of the relationship;
~ Richard D. Phillips
Driving on 1-65 near Nashville, Bill proposed to her.102 Hazel started laughing. She knew he couldn't be a husband. It wasn't just that he was promiscuous: She knew that now, with his resurgent fame, he was married to the world.
~ Richard D. Smith
The critical race theory (CRT) movement is a collection of activists and scholars engaged in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power.
~ Richard Delgado
It's developing a relationship with actors that makes it work.
~ Richard Donner