Quotes about Relationships

The Church is not fully Church if it lacks dialogue.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be with people.

Understanding is the very foundation of love. When you understand someone, you cannot help but love him or her.

Even if two people have a baby together, they are still separate. Each of us remains in isolation. It's not by living together, or by having sexual relations, or even by having children together that we can dispel this feeling of isolation. We can only dispel our mutual isolation when we practice mindfulness and are able to truly come home to ourselves and each other.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone we find it with another.

But if we love ourselves in the wrong way, we become incapable of loving anybody else. And indeed when we love ourselves wrongly we hate ourselves; if we hate ourselves we cannot help hating others.

In the end, it's the reality of personal realtionships that save everything.

It is by the Holy Spirit that we love those who are united to us in Christ. The more plentifully we have received of the Spirit of Christ, the more perfectly we are able to love them: and the more we love them the more we receive the Spirit. It is clear, however, that since we love them by the Spirit Who is given to us by Jesus, it is Jesus Himself Who loves them in us.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them

The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God