Quotes about Relationships

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.

All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you'll find your enemies are in your own church.

We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

When you let God be God you can let humans be humans. When we place God in His rightful place in our lives, we don't struggle so much when human relationships let us down.

Either you will have harmony with God and friction with people, or you will have harmony with people and friction with God.

God has already lined up the right people for you, people that will inspire you, challenge you and motivate you. If you'll let go of the wrong people, then the right people will show up.

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

How much would our churches be transformed if each of us made it a practice to thank God for others and then to tell those others what it is about them that we thank God for?

Could it not be, that God loves me too deeply, by having people challenge me so that I know I'm not perfect.

Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.

God's purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.

As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others.