Quotes about Relationships

Although most of us have affirmed that God is the Creator of all things, it is quite easy to worship him as Creator on Sunday and curse his work during the week. We do this when we are dissatisfied with the way God has made the people we relate to every day. When we fail to worship God as Creator in our relationships, we try to ascend to his throne and do all we can to recreate others in our own image. This always leads to frustration and failure.

Relationships are best built upon godly, mutual dependence.

Good relationships are always built on the foundation stones of identity and worship.

This passage is not encouraging unwise activity that overloads your schedule with church events and obligations. Nor does it ask you to turn normal relational moments into abnormal witnessing encounters.

Godly relationships flourish best between two humble people who acknowledge their weaknesses and sins and their need for grace.

Do you see how money and time reveal your heart in relation to God and others? How you use time and money in your human relationships says much about your relationship with God.

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.

Your spouse, your friends, and your children cannot be the sources of your identity.

When you seek to define who you are through those relationships, you are actually asking another sinner to be your personal messiah

Is there evidence that you are looking to your relationships to give you things you have already been given in Christ?

He is near, with, and in you. This means there is hope for you, even in relationships that leave you confused and disappointed.

If I am going to love you as I should, I must worship God as Sovereign