Quotes about Relationship

The Politics of Fear Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason. Both fear and reason are essential to human survival, but the relationship between them is unbalanced. Reason may sometimes dissipate fear, but fear frequently shuts down reason. As Edmund Burke wrote in England twenty years before the American Revolution, "No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

I will never be able to do or be everything you want, nor vice versa, but I'd like to think we can be the sort of people who will dare to tell each other who we really are. The alternative is silence and lies, which are the real enemies of love.

Lovers may kill their own love story for no other reason than that they are unable to tolerate the uncertainty, the sheer risk, that their experiment in happiness has delivered.

Her mother always said one should never go to bed on an argument.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Distant or near, in joy or in sorrow, each in the other sees his true helper to brotherly freedom.

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

The brother is a burden to the Christian, precisely because he is a Christian. For the pagan the other person never becomes a burden at all. He simply sidesteps every burden that others may impose upon him.

Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.

God is not a matter of mood. He is still present even when we are not in the mood to meet with him.

Only in Jesus Christ are we one, only through him are we bound together.

Christianity without the living Jesus Christ remains necessarily a Christianity without discipleship; and a Christianity without discipleship is always a Christianity without Jesus Christ. It is an idea, a myth.