Quotes about Relationships

Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes

What is done in love, is well done

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.

In many ways, effective communication begins with mutual respect, communication that inspires, encourages others to do their best.

I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, "I want a Dad." But you won't abide in anyone.

People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.

The fact is, you can't marry the best when you're dating the runner-up. While you're searching for Mr. Right, don't settle for Mr. Right Now.

Dating is a give and take. If you only see it as "Taking," you are not getting it.

Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.

As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God's name. (p. 68, Church: Why Bother?)

Ungrace does its work quietly and lethally, like a poisonous, undetectable gas. A father dies unforgiven. A mother who once carried a child in her own body does not speak to that child for half its life. The toxin steals on, from generation to generation.

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.