Quotes About Relationship

At the center of the universe is a relationship, that is the most fundamental truth I know. At the center of the universe is a community. It is out and for that relationship you and I were created and redeemed.

Christianity involves the claim that Jesus was anointed by God to represent both God and humanity in the restoration of a broken relationship existing between the Creator and his creation.

When Jesus is made a social revolutionary or a prophet of wisdom, the relationship of creature to Creator is basically reduced to an ethical call that Jesus is said to give people so that they respond to

These images may be well motivated, but they still lack the personal contact with a living God that fuels and solidifies religious expression and life.

So the second divorce is between God and the potential of his revelation to make us, as his creatures, accountable.

between Jesus and history or between Jesus and the witness of his followers within history.

I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.

The God who has claimed us for himself if Father, Son and Holy Spirit; not just Father, not just Son, not just Spirit. God is God FOR US - Father. God is God WITH US - Son. God is God IN US - Spirit.

No. I am your father.

Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.

Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.

Jja s'inquiétait pour lui. Il n'avait pas essayé de lui expliquer tous ses ennuis, car elle n'aurait jamais pu les comprendre. Elle ne lui en voulait pas, il en était persuadé. Elle faisait de son mieux : elle offrait sa compassion silencieuse pour atténuer une douleur secrète, comme maintenant. Il savoura cette attention paisible pendant un moment. —

And character is not merely rare, it is hard to detect soon enough. Although nothing brings it out like matrimony.

Eleanor was an extremely determined woman, and Henry an extremely determined man. Like flint and steel, they struck sparks. And yet, even after fourteen years of marriage, sexual fires still burned. There was more lightness than heat in their banter.

La oración no es decirle a Dios lo que debe hacer y luego esperar su respuesta positiva e inmediata. La oración es cooperar con Dios para que Él pueda liberar su poder.

When God in the Bible diverts from His normal pattern of referring to Himself as "the Lord" or "God" and adds descriptives such as "Provider" or "Healer" or "Peacemaker," then we should take note that He is describing how He will act toward us! This is how God manages our expectations of Him. This is who God is and how He will always act toward us.

It is almost magical—the way a newly incubator-hatched duckling will devotedly follow a human who is many hundreds of times larger than itself. The phenomenon of day-old animals following the first vocal and animated being it encounters has been labeled imprinting.

There are times when we can be so annoyed at each other, Elliot, and we yell at each other. But when push comes to shove, we let it go, and we're back to our normal selves, because being unhappy is part of being happy. When two people get married, they say two people become one. No, I don't agree. Two people should remain two people but walk side by side. I've not become Elliot. Elliot has not become Hunny. We remain Hunny and Elliot. And to me, that's important.

I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.

A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

If I loan money to a friend or relative, the relationship will be strained or destroyed. The only relationship that would be enhanced is the kind resulting from one party being the master and the other party a servant.

If you have a customer who is able to make the purchase, they trust you, and you have shown them the benefits of the purchase, they will close themselves; you do not need some arm-twisting technique.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil" (emphasis added). It's not about money; it's about our attitude. God doesn't like it when we worship anything other than Him. He's a jealous God, and if our love of money (or family, or career, or hobbies, or . . . you fill in the blank) gets in the way of our relationship with Him, then we have a problem. He doesn't like that.

if a friendship exists only because it benefits us personally, then perhaps it's a lesser kind of relationship. Kant would say that friends have to be ends in themselves, not means. Friendship has 'intrinsic', not mere 'instrumental' worth.