Quotes about Relationships

If you followed the Lord for a thousand years, you would still need the ministry of the body of Christ as much as you did the day you first believed.

We were designed to be social beings, to live in vertical community with God and horizontal community with others.

Humility means that each leader's relationship to other leaders is characterized by an acknowledgment that he deserves none of the recognition, power, or influence that his position affords him.

If you fail to carry around with you a heart of gratitude for the love you've been so freely given, it is easy for you not to love others as you should.

When we replace vertical awe of God with awe of self, bad things happen in the horizontal community.

For the believer, harsh, critical, impatient, and irritated responses to others are always connected to forgetting or denying who we are and what we have been given in Jesus.

Inspection means that we invite people to step over the normal boundaries of leadership relationships to look into our lives to help us see things that we would not see on our own. It means inviting fellow leaders to watch for our souls.

Humility means that each leader's relationship to other leaders is characterized by an acknowledgment that he deserves none of the recognition, power, or influence that his position affords him. It

There is hope for your relationships; there are resources for the struggle, because you have inherited big, expansive, powerful, rescuing, and transforming grace. This grace is so huge and powerful that there is no way to wrap human words around it.

If true humanity is bound up in community with God and godly community with others, I will never experience it when all my eyes ever see is my own need.

Forgiveness is a vertical commitment that is followed by a horizontal transaction.

Love that cares, listens.