Quotes About Relationship

ministry can be fruitful only if it grows out of a direct and intimate encounter with our Lord.

Here is a home for you; maybe you need us." All my desires to be useful, successful, and productive revolted.

Faith is precisely trusting that you who give gratuitously will receive gratuitously, but not necessarily from the person to whom you gave.

Truth does not mean an idea, concept, or doctrine, but the true relationship.

I've yet to meet anyone who has come closer to Jesus by forsaking the church.

We cannot see God in the other person. Only God in us can see God in the other person.

Violence in human relationship is so utterly destructive because it not only harms the other but also drives the self into a vicious circle asking for more and more when less and less is received.

Many mature, successful men in this life often might still treat God as part of themselves. God is the factotum which comes in handy in times of illness, shock, final exams, in every situation in which we feel insecure. And if it does not work, the only reaction may be to cry louder. Far from becoming the Other, whose existence does not depend on mine, he might remain the easy frame which fits best around the edges of my security.

What I am called to make true is that whether I am the younger or the elder son, I am the son of my compassionate Father.

I also learned afresh that friendship requires a constant willingness to forgive each other for not being Christ, and a willingness to ask Christ himself to be the true center of the relationship.

If you see in me more than my function or job, then I can slowly communicate to you on a deeper level. I can become a person to you.

The question is not "How am I to find God?" but "How am I to let myself be found by him?

spiritual direction as Henri understood it can be defined as a relationship initiated by a spiritual seeker who finds a mature person of faith willing to pray and respond with wisdom and understanding to his or her questions about how to live spiritually in a world of ambiguity and distraction.

This invitation to a meal is an invitation to intimacy with God.

Forgiveness means that I continually am willing to forgive the other person for not being God — for not fulfilling all my needs. I, too, must ask forgiveness for not being able to fulfill other people's needs. … The interesting thing is that when you can forgive people for not being God, then you can celebrate that they are a reflection of God.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.

Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.

In my house we were so near that we could not begin to hear -- we could not speak low enough to be heard; as when you throw two stones into calm water so near that they break each other's undulations.

What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary? I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

I need thy hate as much as thy love.

Her beauty belonged to all the world but her flaws belonged to him alone.

It hath been observed, by wise men or women, I forget which, that all persons are doomed to be in love once in their lives.