Quotes about Relationship

Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative.

I need God more than anything I might get from God.

We're all bastards but God loves us anyway.

I remind myself that prayer means keeping company with God who is already present.

For Jesus, the person was more important than any category or label.

Legalism may "work" in an institution such as a Bible college or the Marine Corps. In a world of ungrace, structured shame has considerable power. But there is a cost, an incalculable cost: ungrace does not work in a relationship with God. I have come to see legalism in its pursuit of false purity as an elaborate scheme of grace avoidance. You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it

When a couple encounters a crisis, it magnifies what's already present in the relationship.

We'll stay true to God only if our love becomes a decision.

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.

Because praying—reaching outward and upward to Him—is the way His passion comes down. Even

The apostle Paul, writing in the New Testament, reminds us that the difference between the relationship we have with the one true God and the relationship pagans have with their idols is that their gods are silent (see 1 Corinthians 12:2).

Men, on the most elementary level, you do not have to go to church to be a Christian. You do not have to go home to be married either. But in both cases if you do not, you will have a very poor relationship.