Quotes about Relationships

As we look at human relationships, what we see is that lovers don't want explanations, but presence. And

Have your breakfasts all alone. Share lunch with your best friends. Invite your enemy to dinner. Nelson Mandela

To be cut off by the sword of injured friendship is the most dreadful of all deaths, next to suicide.

True love frees us, and at the same time it binds us:

Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round!

It is the one of the great secrets of life that those things are most worth doing,we do for others.

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.

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.

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.

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?

The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself.