Quotes about Relationships
A runaway calendar will keep you from simplifying your life. It holds you hostage to tangible things—meetings, appointments, and projects—without giving proper priority to the intangibles: who you are becoming, your relationships with family and friends, your connectedness to God. Without conscious intervention, this pattern of chronically overscheduling ensures that the priorities you care about most will take a backseat to the urgent priorities of others every time.
— Bill Hybels
God in His grace will allow us a certain number of friendships that stick for the long haul of life. These friendships are a treasured blessing.
— Bill Hybels
truth telling is more important than peace keeping.
— Bill Hybels
the well-being of the other person is more important than the current comfort level in the relationship.
— Bill Hybels
Pride is corrosive, and it rubs off. You're going to have a tough time developing Christlike humility and thinking of yourself with sober judgment if your close friends are arrogant, full of pride, and looking down their noses at everyone else.
— Bill Hybels
To love as Jesus loves we have to put truth telling ahead of peace keeping. We also have to put the other person's well-being ahead of the comfort level of our relationship.
— Bill Hybels
The longer a person attends church, the fewer evangelistic discussions they engage in with family members and friends. Fewer presentations of the life-changing plan of salvation are given, and fewer invitations to events that attractively present the message of Christ are offered, mostly because Christ-followers have fewer friends outside the faith to whom to offer them.
— Bill Hybels
A runaway calendar will keep you from simplifying your life. It holds you hostage to tangible things—meetings, appointments, and projects—without giving proper priority to the intangibles: who you are becoming, your relationships with family and friends, your connectedness to God. Without conscious intervention, this pattern of chronically overscheduling ensures that the priorities you care about most will take a backseat to the urgent priorities of others every time.
— Bill Hybels
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
— Booker T. Washington
This was the Great Romance. To love at any cost.
— Ted Dekker
How can there be love without a true choice? Would you suggest that man be stripped of the capacity to love?
— Ted Dekker
Love? You have no understanding that to love is to give, not to take.
— Ted Dekker