Quotes about Relationship

When it comes to biblical counseling, friendship is central to the counseling relationship because it is a key aspect of the Gospel. Paul's words display it; Jesus' actions approve it. In Jesus Christ, friendship has its ultimate — that is, it's paradigmatic — display. He sacrificially gave Himself for the good of those he befriended — people who were awkward and troubled types, people who did not offer Him anything particularly desirable in return.

Watch out for the people who say that all is good between them and God but have no interest in being reconciled with the people whom their sin has injured.

Paternity is a long way from fatherhood.

Proverbs 18:22 says, "He who finds a wife finds a good thing."

The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.

Scripture is so clear that love for God must translate into love for those closest to us.2

Does God love us even when our hearts are far from Him? The answer: Yes, He does!

As a father, you are patterning your discipline after your heavenly Father, whom your children need to realize you deeply respect and love.

To know God as he is, is to love him as he is and to want to be like him.

I am not strong because I can force others to do what I wish as a result of my play with them, but because I can allow them to do what they wish in the course of my play with them.

Since a culture is not anything persons do, but anything they do with each other, we may say that a culture comes into being whenever persons choose to be a people. It is as a people that they arrange their rules with each other, their moralities, their modes of communication.

Peter: Oy! Harriet: Hullo! Peter: I just wanted to ask whether you'd given any further thought to that suggestion about marrying me. Harriet (sarcastically) : I suppose you were thinking how delightful it would be to go through life together like this? Peter: Well, not quite like this. Hand in hand was more my idea. Harriet: What is that in your hand? Peter: A dead starfish. Harriet: Poor fish! Peter: No ill-feeling, I trust? Harriet: Oh, dear no.