Quotes about Relationships
In God's plan, our quest for personal identity is meant to drive us back to him as Creator so that we find our meaning and purpose in him. When we live out a sense of who we are IN CHRIST we live our lives based on all we have been given by Christ. This keeps us from seeking to get those things from the people and situations around us. Much of the disappointments and heartache we experience is the result of our attempts to get something from relationships that we already have in Christ.
— Timothy Lane
Your relationships will take you beyond the boundaries of your normal strength. Encouragement gives struggling people eyes to see the unseen Christ.
— Timothy Lane
Every good relationship we have is a gift of God's grace. Left to ourselves, nothing good would happen. Our problem has everything to do with sin and our potential has everything to do with Christ. Sin always draws towards self-interest. It is possible that even in our most altruistic moments are driven by what we get out of them
— Timothy Lane
If you look for God in your relationships, you will always find things to be thankful for. When God reigns in our hearts, peace reigns in our relationships. This work will only be complete in heaven but there is much we can enjoy now.
— Timothy Lane
None of us ever gets to be in relationship with a finished person. God's redemptive work of change is ongoing in all our lives.
— Timothy Lane
He uses the difficult seasons in our relationships to allow us to see what we typically live for besides him.
— Timothy Lane
If our heart's foundation is solid, based on God's truth, design, and purpose for us, we will be able to build healthy, God-honoring relationships even though we are flawed people living in a broken world. By contrast, broken community is always the result of broken foundations.
— Timothy Lane
Good relationships are built on a solid foundation. Without this foundation, no amount of hard work will make your relationships what God intended them to be.
— Timothy Lane
Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe.
— Toni Morrison
Love is divine only and difficult always.
— Toni Morrison
It was lovely. Not to be stared at, not seen, but being pulled into view by the interested, uncritical eyes of the other.
— Toni Morrison
Nobody loved her and she wouldn't have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.
— Toni Morrison