Quotes about Relationship

Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.

Lucie had been many things to me: a child, a source of comfort, a balm, an escape from myself; she was literaly everything for me but a woman.

She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: we are at the last station. The happiness meant: we are together.

Now he too tried hard to think of something else (it was the only thing they had in common), so as to be able to go on making love to her.

For seven years he had lived bound to her,his every step subject to her scrutiny. She might as well have chained iron balls to his ankles. Suddenly his step was much lighter. He soared. He had entered Parmenides' magic field: he was enjoying the sweet lightness of being''.

The past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.

This absurd jealousy, grounded as it was in mere hypotheses, proved that he considered her fidelity an unconditional postulate of their relationship. How then could he begrudge her her jealousy of his very real mistresses?

Everything he did, he did for Sabina, the way Sabina would have liked to see it done.

Our first experience of God is so important, we either experience Him as the police guard that wants to punish or as Creative Love that awaits.

Whenever we encounter another person in love, we learn something new about God.

God wanted us to choose to love him.

God's love entails a covenant commitment on the part of with us, and that covenant commitment means a promise to be with us and for us, and God's covenant is shaped toward our redemption.