Quotes about Relationship

ministry can be fruitful only if it grows out of a direct and intimate encounter with our Lord.

Here is a home for you; maybe you need us." All my desires to be useful, successful, and productive revolted.

Truth does not mean an idea, concept, or doctrine, but the true relationship.

Violence in human relationship is so utterly destructive because it not only harms the other but also drives the self into a vicious circle asking for more and more when less and less is received.

Many mature, successful men in this life often might still treat God as part of themselves. God is the factotum which comes in handy in times of illness, shock, final exams, in every situation in which we feel insecure. And if it does not work, the only reaction may be to cry louder. Far from becoming the Other, whose existence does not depend on mine, he might remain the easy frame which fits best around the edges of my security.

What I am called to make true is that whether I am the younger or the elder son, I am the son of my compassionate Father.

I also learned afresh that friendship requires a constant willingness to forgive each other for not being Christ, and a willingness to ask Christ himself to be the true center of the relationship.

The question is not "How am I to find God?" but "How am I to let myself be found by him?

Spiritual direction as Henri understood it can be defined as a relationship initiated by a spiritual seeker who finds a mature person of faith willing to pray and respond with wisdom and understanding to his or her questions about how to live spiritually in a world of ambiguity and distraction.

In and through solitude we do not move away from people. On the contrary, we move closer to them through compassionate ministry.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.