Quotes about Relationship

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.

The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.

Queen Victoria complained that Gladstone talked to her as if he were addressing a public meeting. She preferred Disraeli, who talked to her like a human being. When you write copy, follow Disraeli's example.

There's no debt. There never has been. We are friends.

The Prayer that precedes all other prayer is, may the real me meet the real you.

A consumer is not a moron. She's your wife. Don't insult her intelligence, and don't shock her.

Ignorance is jealousy's twin sister.

The number one question customers are asking about a business is, 'Do they care about me?