Quotes about Relationships

Spiritual formation is relational formation. It is easier, and therefore more talked about, to practice spiritual disciplines in an effort to feel God's presence than to practice them in order to draw on the Spirit's power to love well. Spiritually forming people may or may not regularly experience God with them. But spiritually forming people will grow to increasingly reveal God's nature by how they relate.

We never argue anymore. And when we do, it never lasts more than a week or two.

You had to stay awake married to him [Humphrey Bogart]. Every time I thought I could relax and do everything I wanted, he'd buck. There was no way to predict his reactions, no matter how well I knew him. As he'd said before our wedding, he expected to be happily married and stay that way, but he never expected to settle down. He liked keeping people off balance. He was good for me -- I could never be quite sure what he would do.

Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

"Do other men for they would do you." That's the true business precept.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces — and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper — love her, love her, love her!

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

Life is made of so many partings welded together

Family need not be defined merely as those with whom we share blood, but as those for whom we would give our blood.

If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces-- love her, love her, love her!