Quotes about Relationships
Actually, this is a good thing, because it forces us to recognize our need for each other. It's part of God's plan. We were created to live in community. We are designed by God for relationships. The very first thing God said to mankind was "It is not good for the man to be alone" (Genesis 2:18). God hates loneliness. So he made us to need each other.
— Rick Warren
How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.
— Graham Greene
Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
— Philip Yancey
Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer.
— Charles Finney
Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them.
— AW Pink
He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.
— St. Augustine
Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.
— FF Bruce
It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.
— John Stott
Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
— Victor Hugo
If we do not love one another we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.
— DL Moody
Some of the best people with whom you can have a relationship are the people who challenge your thinking.
— Bishop TD Jakes