Relationship Quotes - Page 30

What is Christianity all about? It is about an intimate relationship with God. And I HATE a christendom, a churchianity that God is not big enough and glorious enough so that we have to give them other things.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come.

The husband provides direction; the wife, maintenance.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness

Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whole life, even if I haven't.

A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.

You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.

God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. The answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'ts-it's falling in love with God.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.

So can you do me a favor? If I pull it together, make it sooner than later.

I don't understand you. You don't understand me. What else do we have in common?

Facebook's new relationship status option: "No longer able to interact with actual people"

Encourage me, and I will not forget you.

Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.

To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to empathise and to see the non-human sphere in ethical terms, but also get a false sense of our own character and location that includes an illusory sense of autonomy. The failure to see the non-human domain in the richer terms appropriate to ethics licences supposedly ‘purely instrumental’ relationships that distort our perceptions and enframings, impoverish our relations and make us insensitive to dependencies and interconnections

In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.

Communication is the solvent of all problems and is the foundation for personal development.

There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires

Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt.

You've been cold to me so long, I'm crying icicles instead of tears.

Look carefully at what is of value in others and respect that.