Quotes about Relationships

We are all such escape artists, you and I. We don't like to get too serious about things, especially about ourselves. When we are with other people, we are apt to talk about almost anything under the sun except for what really matters to us, except for our own lives, except for what is going on inside our own skins. We pass the time of day. We chatter. We hold each other at bay, keep our distance from each other even when God knows it is precisely each other that we desperately need.

We are commanded to love our neighbors as ourselves, and I believe that to love ourselves means to extend to those various selves that we have been along the way the same degree of compassion and concern that we would extend to anyone else.

We've all had saints in our lives, by which I mean not plaster saints, not moral exemplars, not people setting for us a kind of suffocating good example, but I mean saints in the sense of life givers. People through knowing whom we become more alive.

For no man who lives at all lives unto himself. He either helps or hinders all who are in anywise connected to him.

The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.

How can one love self without being selfish? How can one love others without losing self? The answer is: By loving both self and neighbor in God. It is His Love that makes us love both self and neighbor rightly.

Those who do not yet love one another deeply have need of words; those who deeply love thrive on silences.

They excuse themselves, saying they are bored because they are not loved: No! They are bored because they do not love; because they have denied love.

These four effects of love are: unity, mutual indwelling, ecstasy, and zeal.

In sex the male adores the female. In love the man and woman together adore God.

The loves of all hearts are so many mirrors revealing their characters.

The very fact that a man or woman seeks a new partner is a proof that there never was any love at all. For though sex is replaceable, love is not. Sex is for pleasure; love is for a person. Cows can graze on other pastures, but a person admits of no substitution.