Quotes about Partnership

For many, the point of marriage isn't so much to be in love as to stop having to think of love.

Compatibility is an achievement of love, it shouldn't be the precondition of love.

Life's better with company. Everybody needs a co-pilot.

He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.

Progressive sanctification is not a partnership with the Spirit in the sense that we each - the believer and the Holy Spirit - do our respective tasks. Rather, we work as He enables us to work. His work lies behind all our work and makes our work possible.

Biblical community, then, incorporates this idea of an active partnership in the promotion of the gospel and the building up of believers.

Whether fellowship is perceived as participation or partnership, in either case it implies a responsibility to fulfill our function in the body. We usually don't think of fellowship in terms of fulfilling a responsibility, but that is because we have lost sight of the biblical meaning of fellowship. Fellowship is not just a social privilege to enjoy; it is more basically a responsibility to assume.

Andrew Murray wrote, "In creating man with a free will and making him a partner in the rule of the earth, God limited himself. He made himself dependent on what man would do. Man by his prayer would hold the measure of what God could do in blessing" (emphasis added).2

The pursuit of holiness is a joint venture between God and the Christian.

I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.

After all, it takes a lot of planning to marry the wrong person.

The health of your marriage tomorrow will be determined by the decisions you make today.