Quotes about Relationships
The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.
— St. Augustine
Christ Himself has said: They are no longer two, but they are one flesh (Matt. 19:6). Is it strange then, if they are one flesh, that they should have one tongue and should say the same words, since they are one flesh, Head and body? Let us therefore hear them as one. But let us listen to the Head speaking as Head, and to the body speaking as the body. We do not separate the two realities, but two different dignities; for the Head saves, and the body is saved.
— St. Augustine
Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother. ... Even he that does not as yet believe in Christ ... love him, and love him with fraternal love. He is not yet thy brother, but love him precisely that he may be thy brother.
— St. Augustine
A brother who's helped by a brother is like a strong city.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The happy man in this life needs friends.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
I've come to realize that love has nothing to do with "never having to say you're sorry." Love is an action that does what's best for the other person.
— Stephanie Grace Whitson
This is nothing, Walks the Fire. My anger came when you would not speak of your sadness.I thought you longed for the whites,that you cared nothing for us,that you feared telling me.To have many sons would be a wonderful thing. I cannot lie about that.But if having many sons means I must take another woman, then I would choose no sons and keep Walks the Fire in my tepee.Your heart cries out for children....my heart cries out only for you,best-beloved.
— Stephanie Grace Whitson
We should never use the truth to wound.
— St. Augustine
We hurt most who we love the most. Bad grammar, painful truth.
— Andy Stanley
It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.
— CS Lewis
Countless mistakes in marriage, parenting, ministry, and other relationships are failures to balance grace and truth. Sometimes we neglect both. Often we choose one over the other.
— Randy Alcorn