Quotes about Relationship

When the Love of God is in me, God is able to love you through me and you are able to love God through me. If my soul were closed to that love, God's love for you and your love for God and God's love for Himself in you and in me, would be denied the particular expression which it finds through me and through no other.

you have often said, it is not about religion; it is about a relationship with God.

Because we are made in God's image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being our most authentic selves.

I began to appreciate religious belief as a relationship, like a deep friendship, or a marriage, something that I could plunge into, not knowing exactly what I was doing or what would be demanded of me in the long run.

According to God, the One who designed and instituted marriage, love is a choice. It's a matter of obedience, not emotion.

Christianity isn't a religion, it's a relationship. And as we all know, a relationship requires a high commitment to communication.

Life can get distorted and out of whack when you don't know God. And you can't really know Him in truth apart from the Word of God. Look around you at the lives people are living. Find out how important the Bible is in their lives and how much time they devote to studying it. Notice the relationship between their knowledge of God and the way they handle life.

Serving God, valuable as that might be, is no substitute for knowing Him and communicating with Him. Real service flows out of relationship, not obligation.

You did not invent marriage. God did.

The key, of course, is loving the churchless for who they are rather than for what they can offer our church.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously.