Quotes about Relationship
Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.
- Timothy Keller
Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.
- Timothy Keller
A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself.
- Timothy Keller
To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.
- Timothy Keller
Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.
- Timothy Keller
If God is not a personal being for me like my earthly father, He is infinitely more.
- Mahatma Gandhi
We might question God's actions, decisions, or declarations. But we can never, ever question his zany, stunning, unquenchable affection.
- Max Lucado
What you do for a tree, God does for you.
- Max Lucado
People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves.
- Mother Teresa
God has taken us utterly seriously. How can we not do the same with him?
- NT Wright
When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin.
- Peter Kreeft
In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson