Quotes about Relationship

Fuzzy and unspecific prayers see fuzzy and unspecific results.

The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you seek him,he will be found by you. (2 Chronicles 15:2)

When we abandon ourselves to love, we find ourselves closer to the one who is always doing that Himself. We find God.

This is why, if you want to get to know someone, you need to know their story. Their life is a story. It, too, has a past and a future. It, too, unfolds in a series of scenes over the course of time.

Intimacy with God is the purpose of our lives. It's why God created us.

He didn't make Adam from polyester, but from the dust of the earth, and he didn't set him down at the mall, but in the outdoors, in nature. The created world, with all its beauty and diversity and wildness, this is the world God intended for us to live in relationship to.

I simply align myself with you again today.

Don't let your experience of God up to this point limit what you might enjoy with him in the coming years.

respectable channels of religion. Consider this one piece of evidence: millions of people who have spent years attending church, and yet they don't know God. Their heads are filled with stuffing about Jesus, but they do not experience him, not as the boys did on the beach. There are millions more who love Jesus Christ but experience him only occasionally, more often stumbling along short of the life he promised, like Lazarus still wrapped in his graveclothes.

You see, whenever we live in relationship, whenever we simply live in proximity to other people, sooner or later we will run up against their issues—the unhealed or unholy parts of their personalities. Just as they will run into ours. Living in community is like a pack of porcupines sharing the same den. We will get stuck.

Prayer does not have to be theologically correct. It is a conversation.

If you take away the Jewish contribution to Christianity, there would be no Christianity. Judaism does not need Christianity to explain its existence; Christianity, however, cannot explain its existence without Judaism.