Quotes about Relationship

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.

Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.

But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.

The third basic need of a male in a relationship is an attractive woman; for a woman, honesty and openness.

It isn't about singing a particular hymn or reciting a prayer — it's about a relationship with your Heavenly Father who loves and cares for you.

The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.

If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."~

The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he were sitting in a chair beside them, as one might talk to a counselor, a boss, a parent, or a lover. They treated him like a person.

Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor even the information contained in our prayers ("your Father knows what you need before you ask him"). But by inviting us into the partnership of creation, God also invites us into relationship. God is love, said the apostle John. God does not merely have love or feel love. God is love and cannot not love. As such, God yearns for relationship with the creatures made in his image.