Quotes about Relationships
We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. Then they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves.
— Lewis Carroll
We do not walk away from others to punish them; we turn away so the embers of anger can cool and reason can again rule our hearts.
— Lisa Bevere
Women are incredibly valuable, but often we have failed to express this to one another. Perhaps we have not heard it enough. Not in the media. Not in the church. Not in our homes. Not in the area of sexuality. Not in our relationships. As we realize and affirm our inherent value, our strengths will be magnified. What we will become will be increasingly apparent. The dark, shadowy mirror will clear, and our original role and the beauty it carries will be revealed.
— Lisa Bevere
How many parents have lost the hearts of their children because they forgot why they had them? It was never to control them but to provide an environment in which they would flourish. How many couples have lost their marriages because they forgot why they were together? They fight against each other rather than for their love. Do we grasp and wrestle with others for their roles because we lose sight of our own?
— Lisa Bevere
The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.
— Billy Graham
Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.
— George Eliot
When a man meets his make, society begins.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.
— Thomas Jefferson
On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
— Edith Stein
Choose your love; love your choice.
— Thomas Monson