Quotes about Relationships

We must live with our enemies as if they might one day become our friends, and live with our friends as if they might some time or other become our enemies.

Compatibility is an achievement of love, it shouldn't be the precondition of love.

The whole language of love had been corrupted by overuse.

We have allowed our love stories to end too early. We seem to know too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.

Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.

I travel in so many different ways I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.

Truth was the only superglue that could mend the cracks in her family.

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.

Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself. It wants to gain, to capture by every means; it uses force. It desires to be irresistible, to rule.