Quotes about Relationship

People move from church to church as if the churches in their community are nothing more than ecclesiastical department stores. They're shopping for just the right preacher, women's ministry, youth ministry, or worship style. These Christians' relationship to the church mirrors my relationship to Macy's.

Many, many believers think of their church as a place to attend rather than something with which they are intimately involved.

Maturity is about relationship to God that results in wise and humble living. Maturity of love for Christ expresses itself in love for others. Thankfulness for the grace of Christ expresses itself in grace to others. Gratitude for the patience and forgiveness of Christ enables you to be patient and forgiving toward others. It is your own daily experience of the rescue of the gospel that gives you a passion for people to experience the same rescue.

There is no faith that he will give them all they need to respond to each other in godly ways. As a result, their relationship is reduced to human demands, human performance, human failure, human judgment, and human punishment

On your very worst, most rebellious, and most faithless day, you can run into the holy presence of your heavenly Father and he will not turn you away.

If you obey God for a thousand years, you will not have earned more of his acceptance than you were granted the very first moment you believed.

The heart of true prayer is vertical confession, not horizontal desire.

Sinners tend to move away from defining themselves in relationship to their Creator and begin defining themselves in relationship to the creation.

God's purpose in controlling the details of your life (the exact length of it and the locations where you live) is so that at any moment in the middle of your unfolding story, you can reach out and touch him, because his rule makes him very near to every one of us. What each of us really needs in our finite and faltering humanness is not so much the success of our plans, but God himself.

No self-acceptance is possible if one is not accepted in a person-to-person relation.

The first duty of love is to listen.

The marriage covenant should be strong enough to endure pressure from within and from without