Quotes about Relationships

When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

The fact that our relationships work as well as they do is a sure sign of grace

It's inevitable. If you live with other sinners, you will have conflict. The closer you are to someone, the more potential there is for conflict. Relationships are costly, but so is avoiding them.

Much of the disappointment and heartache we experience is the result of our attempts to get something from relationships that we already have in Christ.

No human being was ever meant to be the source of personal joy and contentment for someone else. And surely, no sinner is ever going to be able to pull that off day after day in the all-encompassing relationship of marriage!

Our sight is dimmed by the tyranny of the urgent, by the siren call of success, by the seductive beauty of physical things, by our inability to admit our own problems, and by the casual relationships within the body of Christ that we mistakenly call fellowship.

Our relationships must be shaped not by what we want, but by what God intends.

Sin's self-centeredness cuts us off from God and others

Jesus' language on this point is striking. He welcomes us into this divine community with Father, Son, and Spirit so that we can experience community with one another.

Jesus is not manufacturing a new idea for human relationships or the church. His prayer reflects what God's design has always been.

What does all this biblical and experiential data tell us? That you cannot talk about human beings made in God's image without talking about relationships. Yet it is often the first thing we overlook. Only when human beings live in community do we fully reflect the likeness

Who you tell yourself you are has a very powerful impact on the way you deal with the big and small issues of daily life. In the same way, where you find your identity will have everything to do with how you respond to the hard work of relationships with others. Either I get my identity vertically, out of my sense of who God is and worship who he has made me in Christ, or I will seek to get my identity horizontally, out of my circumstances, relationships, and successes.