Quotes about Relationship

The main purpose of prayer is not to make life easier, nor to gain magical powers, but to know God.

grace means there is nothing I can do to make God love me more, and nothing I can do to make God love me less. It means that I, even I who deserve the opposite, am invited to take my place at the table in God's family.

They [Old Testament] taught me about Life with God: not how it is supposed to work, but how it actually does work.

Somehow, that "faith" was what God valued, and it soon became clear that faith was the best way for humans to express a love for God.

only love can summon a response of love, which is the one thing God wants from us and the reason he created us.

AS ANDREW GREELEY SAID, If one wishes to eliminate uncertainty, tension, confusion and disorder from one's life, there is no point  in getting mixed up either with Yahweh or with Jesus of Nazareth.7-9 I grew up expecting that a relationship with God would bring order, certainty, and a calm rationality to life. Instead, I have discovered that living in faith involves much dynamic tension.

Prayer means keeping company with God who is already present.

Author Stephen Brown notes that a veterinarian can learn a lot about a dog owner he has never met just by observing the dog. What does the world learn about God by watching us his followers on earth?

To pray is to walk in the full light of God, and to say simply, without holding back, 'I am human and you are God.

We do not pray to tell God what he does not know, nor to remind him of things he has forgotten. He already cares for the things we pray about... He has simply been waiting for us to care about them with him.

The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

When the church joined with the state, it tended to wield power rather than dispense grace.