Quotes about Relationship

God is not a bargaining God. You cannot barter with Him. You must do business with Him on His own terms.

God began by revelation to build a bridge between Himself and people.

Does this verse mean God gives us a blank check (so to speak) when we pray? Does He promise to give us anything we want, if we just keep asking? No. God loves us too much to answer prayers that are foolish or might harm us. But the closer we get to Him—the more we abide in Him and His word abides in us—the more we will desire what He desires, and the more our prayers will reflect His will.

God knew that children grow and mature best in a stable, loving family, and this was one reason He gave marriage to us.

Not only does God give us a new relationship with Himself and make us citizens of His kingdom, but He also gives us a new family—the family of God.

We were created to live a life of prayer.

Parents need much wisdom in relating to their grown children—and much prayer. Children likewise have much to learn about relating to their parents as the years pass.

We are commissioned to make disciples, to bring them into the same direct relationship with Christ as those who left their nets and their fishing boats to become "fishers of men".

Don't ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn't want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.

I am never lonely when I am praying, for this brings me into companionship with the greatest friend of all—Jesus Christ. He said, "I call you not servants; . . . but . . . friends" [John 15:15 KJV].

There is a right way and a wrong way to make contact with God.

God didn't make Adam and Eve because He was lonely or because He needed someone to love Him in return. God is complete in Himself; He lacks nothing. God's love compelled Him to create [humanity]. His love was expressed in the creation of the human race.