Quotes About Relationship

We unlearn the art of speaking well when we cease to speak with God.

When God descends to us he, in a certain sense, abases himself and stammers with us, so He allows us to stammer with Him

God, in so speaking, lisps with us as nurses are wont to do with little children.

set before them the coming of Christ, who was both the foundation of the covenant and the bond of mutual communion between God and the people. Therefore

God very commonly takes on the character of a husband to us. Indeed, the union by which he binds us to himself when he receives us into the bosom of the church is like sacred wedlock.

By these words it is plain he does not make love the cause of forgiveness, but the proof of it.

when God opens his mouth to us, he should not find our hearts closed and shut firmly against him. _________________________________________________________________

And we must so discuss them as to bear in mind that this is the main hinge on which religion turns,3 so that we devote the greater attention and care to it. For unless you first of all grasp what your relationship to God is, and the nature of his judgment concerning you, you have neither a foundation on which to establish your salvation nor one on which to build piety toward God. But the need to know this will better appear from the knowledge itself.

colleagues.' 'Whatever. But Kara called me up

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss—you can't do it alone.

I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest in anything that didn't immediately affect her.

There was a lot to be said for the discipline of married life. It forced one to learn the art of compromise, and to remedy the flaws in one's nature.

He had always worried about her when he was in school, because if he was away from her then he had no control over her existence.

He had loved her as much as a man can love his wife, and so nothing more need be said.

Maybe this is common to all those who lose someone whom they have loved deeply. Making contact with another potential partner, another lover, becomes an act of reconstruction, a building not only of a relationship but also of oneself.

reading was a solitary pursuit. Oh, one could read in the same room as someone else, or beside them in bed at night, but it rather presumed that an agreement had been reached about such matters, and the couple in question consisted of a pair of like-minded souls.

You may think me mad." "My dear fellow, we hardly know each other. I wouldn't dare to make such a judgment until we were better acquainted.

My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.

Can one truly get closer to God? Has Christ only brought us part way? Consider the analogy of a vine and a branch. It is impossible for a branch to grow any closer to the vine than it already is. The two are physically connected. There is no breach that is progressively being filled. Now, does the branch continue to grow? Yes! It even flourishes, buds and bears fruit. But is it growing toward union, or because of union?

He is your sanctification. Any system that tries to draw your attention away from the person of Christ and onto your own efforts is antichrist in nature. Your union with God is not an incomplete relationship that comes progressively. Time is not the magic formula that makes you holy. Jesus' sacrifice made you holy. Christ's work was enough to purify you, spirit, soul and body.

It is when love takes on responsibilities that it most frequently wanders from the path.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

The only way to prepare for social life is to engage in social life. To form habits of social usefulness and serviceableness apart from any direct social need and motive, apart from any existing social situation, is, to the letter, teaching the child to swim by going through motions outside of the water.

Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.