Quotes about Relationships

Sometimes doing the right thing wounds others — and also wounds the wounder.

So many wounds are inflicted almost without thinking, aren't they? We never sin unto ourselves. Sin invariably involves others, usually affecting those who are closest to us.

Satan must grin wickedly when he sees our gossip disguised as a prayer request or a need to get a third person's opinion. It just adds fuel to Satan's fire as the problem becomes widespread and relationships are damaged.

Sarah blamed her husband for a situation she herself had arranged! It might seem ludicrous if it wasn't so much like what all of us do when we allow our wounds to blind us. That's the most striking characteristic of a blind spot — it can be easily seen by everyone … except ourselves.

God loved Hagar as much as He loved Abraham!

Love is a choice — a decision we make to put the well-being of the other person before our own. And forgiveness is also a decision.

Wounding smashes relationships. We can never return to the way we were before the wounding took place, which in itself adds a dimension to our grief that is very deep. Yet it is possible for severed relationships to be reconciled.

Would the contagious cycle of pain in your life, or that of your family or church, be stopped if you would be the first to reach out, to give in, to say you are sorry, or at the very least open up a conversation on the source of the wounds?

Don't blame God for the behavior of the people who have wounded you. I understand the desperate desire to run from them, but not from Him.

Some people are friends, others are people you are forced to hang out with.

We teach others how to treat us.

In life you will meet two kinds of people: Those who build you up and those who tear you down. But in the end, you will thank them both.