Quotes about Relationships
Your everyday communication influences the shape, quality, and direction of your relationships.
— Timothy Lane
Our background, relationships, situation, and physical condition only provide the opportunity for our thoughts, words, and actions to reveal whatever is already in our hearts. Our hearts are always the ultimate cause of our responses, and where the true spiritual battle is fought.
— Timothy Lane
Every day your words give your relationships their tone. Every day you tell people what you think of them, what you want from them, and what you would like to enjoy with them.
— Timothy Lane
To the degree that you forget you are a sinner, you will underestimate your daily need for Christ and the relationships in his body that are his tools of change.
— Timothy Lane
It is easy to forget the impact our words have on every relationship. There
— Timothy Lane
In this chapter we invite you to listen to your words and evaluate the way they shape your relationships.
— Timothy Lane
God has a bigger agenda for our relationships than we do
— Timothy Lane
Our template or road map is Ephesians 4. As you read it, ask yourself what it says about (1) the struggle of self-interest and (2) God's agenda for our relationships. This passage will be the grid you can use to look at the issues of relationship we address in this book.
— Timothy Lane
Jesus is pointing to an internal reality of grace that expresses itself in observable changes in individuals and their relationships.
— Timothy Lane
In other words, you can't take the gospel seriously and not take your relationships seriously.
— Timothy Lane
Yet we are most true to our identity and calling when we live in the midst of broken people.
— Timothy Lane
Do people regularly feel bruised in their relationship with you?
— Timothy Lane