Quotes about Relationship

Our state cannot be sever'd; we are one, one flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.

O my Savior, Shield, and Sun,   Shepherd, Brother, Husband, Friend,   Every precious name in one;   I will love thee without end.

God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.

We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.

The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.

Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps, it cannot watch with him one hour.

Your mind was made to know and love God.

What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.

The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature

God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he comes to us in this world there would be these powerful words and images to describe the promises and the pleasures of our covenant relationship with him through Christ.

God is not honored by groundless love. In fact, there is no such thing. If we do not know anything about God, there is nothing in our mind to awaken love. If love does not come from knowing God, there is no point in calling it love for God .

God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.