Quotes about Relationship

When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.

Just as the right relationship with Christ generates a Christian, so the proper relationship with the Holy Spirit breeds a spiritual man.

God is not interested in our spiritual life. He's interested in our life.

Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.

A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.

Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.

Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

The truth is, of course, that we are all organically related to God, to Nature and to our fellow-men. If every human being were constantly and consciously in a proper relationship with his divine, natural and social environments there would be only so much suffering as Creation makes inevitable.

To be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is; a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people...That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.

Thus when someone is born again, the Holy Spirit gives that person new Fatherward desires, a new heavenward orientation whereby we cry, "Abba, Father!" In other words, all those indwelled by the Holy Spirit really want to pray. The Holy Spirit causes all the children of God to believe that God is their Father and fills them with an undying desire to talk to him.