Quotes about Relationship

True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

Religion is man's attempt to reach God and Christianity is God's attempt to reach man.

No man has any right to speak to men about God who has not first spoken to God about men.

A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?

A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.

When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.

For God would in nothing fail to endow a being who was to be next to Himself with a liberty of this kind.

Sometimes God comforts us directly, but that's not His only strategy. Normally He comforts us through His people—so if our lives aren't open to one another, they're closed to the Father's comfort. Let's share our lives; let's fellowship in suffering so that we can fellowship in His mercy.