Quotes about Relationship

We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.

Happiness is dependent on our circumstances; Joy is dependent on our relationship.

Standing near someone you love in a time of trouble is its own reward.

The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.

To be loved by God is the highest relationship, the highest achievement, and the highest position in life.

We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.

He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realized that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.

To pray is to walk in the full light of God, and to say simply, without holding back, 'I am human and you are God.

This understanding of God provides the key to understanding what the Bible means when it declares that humans are made "in the image of God." The imago Dei means that humans, like God, are essentially beings who exist in relationship. We are created to exist in relationship with God and with each other. To the extent that we live in isolation from God and from each other, we are not fully human.

Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flocks.

Are you seeking great things for yourself, instead of seeking to be a great person? God wants you to be in a much closer relationship with Himself than simply receiving His gifts—He wants you to get to know Him. Even some large thing we want is only incidental; it comes and it goes. But God never gives us anything incidental. There is nothing easier than getting into the right relationship with God, unless it is not God you seek, but only what He can give you.

On your very worst, most rebellious, and most faithless day, you can run into the holy presence of your heavenly Father and he will not turn you away.