Quotes about Relationships

I have always liked fat men. They have given up all unnecessary effort, for they have had the sense to realize that women do not, as men do, fall in love with physical beauty. Curran was stout and so was your father. It's easier to feel at home with a fat man.

Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.

How strange and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

He never listened while his wife talked.

It is important that we never separate our love for God from our love for others. For loving our neighbors as ourselves is one central way we love God.

God doesn't depend primarily on the words of his disciples, nor on their clever apologetic arguments, nor on their ability to concoct ingenious marketing techniques. God relies on his disciples participating in the love that he is and thus replicating it toward each other within the body and toward all others outside the body.

Our Kingdom call is to revolt against the Powers by dismantling the hierarchy of privilege, rejecting all racial stereotypes and judgments, forging meaningful relationships across ethnic lines, and submitting ourselves to one another as we listen, learn, and follow one another.

Love must always start free—but its goal is to become unfree. To be unable not to love is the highest form of freedom in love.

It's just a very weird thing to have a relationship that's commented on by the world wide web.

We should not be worried about age when it comes to love and attraction.

Every individual we meet is different than we are. Members of the same family differ one from the other. Friend differs from friend, husband from wife, sister from brother, nation from nation. All these differences make 'feeling' love difficult and isolated to specific individuals according to our tastes and their personalities.

The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church.