Quotes about Relationships

Every man needs a place to be open and vulnerable with brothers leaning together upon the Lord.

Love is what we need in friendship when we stumble, and truth is what we need when we stray.

Plain and simple, men need community with other men. Loving, you-before-me, dedicated relationship. If you have never had it, you don't really get it yet, and if you had that community and lost it, you know the cavity it leaves in your soul until you discover it again.

Men need to know that you don't need to become a woman to love others as God designed for the benefit of all.

Instead of seeing ourselves as people trying to connect with people, let's see the church as people trying to connect with God and help others do the same.

Spending too much time in one's individual silo can produce pride, isolation, and a stagnated ministry.

The greatest failure in human existence is the failure of Christ-followers to "love one another earnestly from a pure heart"5 and to heed the words of Christ: "By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."6

Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person. That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said. All right. I can respect that. Only you've got to play the game. Don't force an emotional situation and then blame me for it. But I don't want any situation. I want to be left in peace.

Detachment is a rare virtue, and very few people find it lovable, either in themselves or in others. If you ever find a person who likes you in spite of it-still more, because of it-that liking has very great value, because it is perfectly sincere, and because, with that person, you will never need to be anything but sincere yourself.

there's nothin' like Christian feelin's for upsettin' a man's domestic comfort.

He has the valuable quality of being fond of people without wanting to turn them inside out.

He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.