Quotes about Relationship
There is no fulfilment of the law apart from communion with God, and no communion with God apart from fulfilment of the law. To forget the first condition was the mistake of the Jews, and to forget the second the temptation of the disciples.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
But God has put this Word into the mouth of men in order that it may be communicated to other men. When one person is struck by the Word, he speaks it to others. God has willed that we should seek him and find his living Word in the witness of a brother, in the mouth of a man. Therefore, a Christian needs another Christian who speaks God's Word to him. He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Just as Christ maintained his communion with the Father by his endurance, so his followers are to maintain their communion with Christ by their endurance.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
love typically gives rise to responsiveness regarding the beauty of a very specific individual taken as a whole rather than for values taken individually.
— Dietrich von Hildebrand
In the Sawi universe, not only man, but all things are communicating.
— Don Richardson
A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.
— Oswald Chambers
Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.
— J. Oswald Sanders
What's the will of God for my life? You don't need to know the will of God in your life, you need to know the God of your life!
— Paul Washer
You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.
— Desmond Tutu
The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.
— Rick Warren
The evidence that a person has truly opened their life to Christ is continued fellowship with Christ.
— Paul Washer