Relational Quotes

#1. No longer in a relational universe, can we study anything as separate from ourselves. Our acts of observation are part of the process that brings forth the manifestation of what we are observing.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#2. Relational depth often emerges from intentional dialog

Brad Lomenick

#3. A growing leader needs a relational network that embraces mentors, peers, and emerging leaders in order to ensure development and a healthy perspective on his or her life and ministry.

Paul D. Stanley

#4. Ah, marriage. The kind of union we have affects our children infinitely more than the schools we put them in, the activities we sign them up for, or the church we take them to. Our kids are learning relational habits by osmosis, and statistics say they'll likely imitate what they witness at home.

Jen Hatmaker

#5. relational maturity.

Scott Turansky

#6. A word meant something only between people, and life's meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form. It was the relational aspect of humans that undergirded meaning.

Paul Kalanithi

#7. Don't steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.

Bill Hybels

#8. brain imaging studies show that the experience of physical pain and the experience of relational pain, like rejection, look very similar in terms of location of brain activity.

Daniel J. Siegel

#9. Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

Randy Alcorn

#10. Holistic living means that your spiritual, relational, emotional, intellectual, physical, and financial lives are working together.

Tsh Oxenreider

#11. People who continue in blatant sin whilst exercising spiritual gifts create this ever widening gulf in their personality which results in spiritual failure, emotional collapse, sometimes mental breakdown, physical illness, relational difficulties and quite often a complete moral lapse.

Graham Cooke

#12. Christianity has lost its place at the center of American life. Christians must learn how to live the gospel as a distinct people who no longer occupy the center of society. We must learn to build relational bridges that win a hearing."7

Hugh Halter

#13. Too many times adults are insensitive to the nurture and instruction of children. Notice the balance! On the one hand there is training, nurturing, or instruction of a child. On the other, the warning or instructional dimension is emphasized. Training in God's Word must have a relational aspect.

Michael Anthony

#14. Physical presence provides chemical, relational, psychological and physiological effects that virtual relationships cannot. Our brains change in the presence of another person and their behavior.

Henry Cloud

#15. Our legacy comprises the spiritual, intellectual, relational, vocational, and social capital we pass on. It's the sum total of the beliefs you embrace, the values you live by, the love you express, and the service you render to others.

Michael Hyatt

#16. Soaking" seems like a crazy word in an intimacy book. Yet that is exactly what you want to do in your relational time with Him, you want to "soak in and soak up" His presence, "soak in and soak up" His love.

Linda Boone

#17. The human mind is a relational and embodied process that regulates the flow of energy and information.

Daniel J. Siegel

#18. A spiritual intention is a resounding YES to awakening to your fullest potential. It may include several of your life structures: mental, emotional, financial, relational - because there is no aspect of your life that is not spiritual.

Michael Beckwith

#19. The time has come for women and men to band together to jointly create gender harmony. We must gather in mixed group to plumb new depths of relational awareness, courageous truth-telling, compassionate listening, empathic sensitivity, and mutual healing.

William Keepin

#20. Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was holistic and relational, and even now there are many scientists in the West seeing things totally interconnected.

Satish Kumar

#21. If you are truly wise, then you reflect the universe and you are relational in your approach to things. You are a mirror of infinity. That is wisdom.

Frederick Lenz

#22. I want to believe that in any relational moment a person understands that the other person in front of them is just another human being.

Claudia Rankine

#23. As you study computer science you develop this wonderful mental acumen, particularly with relational databases, systems analysis, and artificial intelligence.

Frederick Lenz

#24. Truly transformational knowledge is always personal, never merely objective. It involves knowing of, not merely knowing about. And it is always relational. It grows out of a relationship to the object that is known - whether this is God or one's self.

David G. Benner

#25. Educational television had a dramatic effect on relational aggression. The more the kids watched, the crueler they'd be to their classmates. This correlation was 2.5 times higher than the correlation between violent media and physical aggression.

Po Bronson

#26. The relational aspect of all things is the music that sets life and the universe dancing.

Dee Hock

#27. Compassion is, by definition, relational. Compassion literally means "to suffer with," which implies a basic mutuality in the experience of suffering. The emotion of compassion springs from the recognition that the human experience is imperfect.

Kristin Neff

#28. We are relational creatures. All humans live in community and most people seek social interaction. In western culture, isolation is seen as one of the most stringent of punishments. Even criminals do not aspire to solitary confinement.

Gary Chapman

#29. The relational leader operates not by being known by everyone, but by authentically creating positive relationships with people around her.

Scott K. Edinger

#30. Followers of Christ are not called to be merely tolerant of others. We are called to love those who disagree with us. Abnormal communication - blessing those who curse us - establishes the relational level of our communication and demonstrates our concern for others.

Tim Muehlhoff

#31. We wrestle with our own opponents on a daily basis. These challengers can come in numerous forms whether it be a physical challenge, emotional, or even relational issues that can overtake us. No matter what opponent we are wrestling against we can be UNSTOPPABLE.

Anthony Robles

#32. In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

Richard Rohr

#33. I like having songs that go from the personal to the kind of inter-relational, universal, because everything comes back to micro/macro and everything's tied in.

Serj Tankian

#34. Bad ideas do not just happen. We are responsible for them. They result from carelessness on our part, when we cease to pay sufficient attention to the relational quality of ideas, or, worse, are a product of the willful rejection of objective facts.

Dennis Q. McInerny

#35. So, relational evangelism? Go for it, as long as it turns into actual evangelism. You hanging out having a beer with your buddy so he can see that Christians are cool is not what we're called to do. You're eventually going to have to open up your mouth and share the gospel.

Matt Chandler

#36. Made in the image of a perfect relationship, we are relational to the core of our beings and filled with a desire for transcendent purpose. We long to be an irreplaceable part of a shared adventure.

John Eldredge

#37. In the arena of friendship and in sharp contrast to today, men were perceived to be far superior to women at forging bonds with members of the same sex, in part because women were expected to save their empathy and relational resources for their husbands.

Anonymous

#38. Buddhism is the study of the way the mind works. One has to be able to hold a large number of relational concepts simultaneously in the mind. It is necessary to grid, to literally unlock realities and dimensions with the power of your mind.

Frederick Lenz

#39. It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.

Jerry Saltz

#40. Man is a relational being. And if his first, fundamental relationship is disturbed - his relationship with God - then nothing else can be truly in order.

Pope Benedict XVI

#41. We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

Irvin D. Yalom

#42. The more clearly we recognize how deep our commitment to self-protection operates in our relational style and the more courageously we face the ugliness of protecting ourselves rather than loving others, the more we'll shift our direction.

Larry Crabb

#43. I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with ... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all.

Robert Motherwell

#44. A categorization implies a hierarchical way of seeing things. Life is really relational, not hierarchical. Hierarchical is a human way of looking at things. Relational is much more the way things are. Everything is connected.

Frederick Lenz

#45. True wisdom is to see and understand your relationship with the universe. When you gain that relational knowledge, then you are wise.

Frederick Lenz

#46. high levels of time spent engaging in media can have a negative impact on romantic relationships, specifically on levels of relational aggression.

Douglas A. Gentile

#47. I'm hoping to know and teach a Gospel that is true to Scripture - and the Gospel that I see in the Bible is COSMIC (big enough to redeem all of Creation) and RELATIONAL (getting at the root of the Fall - the loss of our relational capacities) ...

Peter Robinson

#48. What if our loneliness is the result not simply of needing a partner but of needing people? We are made in the image of a relational God; it makes sense that we possess the desire to be together.

Debra Fileta

#49. God has made us this way, in his own image, because he himself is a personal, relational being.

Gordon D. Fee

#50. Embrace relational uncertainty. It's called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It's called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It's called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It's called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It's called revelation.

Mark Batterson

#51. Your sexuality was never meant to be separate from your deepest spiritual and relational longings but to be an expression of them.

Juli Slattery

#52. How wonderful to discover that God has never been alone. He has always been Trinity - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God has always been a fellowship. This whole Story began with something relational.

John Eldredge

#53. Many seducers clutter the simple message of the gospel with legalistic additions, with convoluted attempts to legitimize moral compromise, and with psychological theories that turn churches into relational support groups instead of houses of worship.

Charles R. Swindoll

#54. We have a relational problem with those who are suffering or who are different from us. All of us are most comfortable around people who are like us culturally and economically.

Shane Claiborne

#55. Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they see them as relational rather than as individual equal humans.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#56. When people possess information they deem too problematic to disclose, they will deceive. Contrastively, in situations where little personal, relational, or professional costs

Anonymous

#57. If the Gospel of Jesus is relational, that is, if our brokenness will be fixed not by our understanding of theology but by God telling us who we are, then this would require a kind of intimacy of which only Heaven knows.

Donald Miller

#58. Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

John C. Maxwell

#59. The natural principle of sowing and reaping is always at work. Whatever you plant , whether physical, spiritual, mental, financial, relational, or emotional, will grow and someday return to you in a multiplied fashion. It can be incredibly good or terribly bad, depending on your seed.

Paul J. Meyer

#60. Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals.

Barton Gellman

#61. Developmental trauma occurs when "emotional pain cannot find a relational home in which it can be held."1 In retrospect, I can see that this was the case for

Mark Epstein

#62. It's not the art, it's the heart. What [God] reads during our worship is the inner attitude. Worship is spiritual; it's organic; it's relational.

LaMar Boschman

#63. Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.

Bill Hybels

#64. Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Susan Sontag

#65. The fruit of the Spirit is fundamentally relational. Rather than originating with us, it flows to us from our union with Christ, and it flows beyond us to bring us into fellowship with others. The secret of this flow - and our unity with God and others - is humility.

Jerry Bridges

#66. We disagree with the assertion that great teachers can be replaced by online alternatives. The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over teachers ignores all the social and relational dimensions of teaching and learning.

Andy Hargreaves

#67. Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion. Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#68. The mission that Jesus invites us to participate in is primarily a relational one in nature. Our ability to sustain our relationship in a meaningful way will have a direct impact on our missional fruitfulness.

Gary Rohrmayer

#69. Jesus' approach to training was primarily as a mentor, and his mentoring method was relational, informal, oral, and mobile.

Evelyn Hibbert

#70. Growing independence, though, doesn't have to mean growing separation. Humans were created to be relational beings. We may outgrow our dependency, but we never outgrow the need for community, interaction, appreciation, reassurance, and support.

L.R. Knost

#71. The goal of feminist spirituality has never been the simple substitution of Yahweh-with-a-skirt. Rather, it seeks, in all its diversity, to revitalize relational, body-honoring, cosmologically grounded spiritual possibilities for women and all others.

Charlene Spretnak

#72. Money follows mission, not the reverse. This is a shorthand way of saying that the stronger the congregation's relational characteristics, the easier it is to raise money. The stronger the congregation's mission, visitation, groupings, leadership, and decision making, the stronger the giving.

Kennon Callahan

#73. One-half plus one-half does not equal one; one whole plus one whole equals relational wholeness.

Surya Das

#74. For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is to empower, bringing us into our own together, a god whose name in history is love ...

Carter Heyward

#75. Ministry flows from intimacy. Mission comes from relationship. Whatever Christ calls you to forsake will also be relational in its implications.

Britt Merrick

#76. Big data is the most disruptive force this industry has seen since the introduction of the relational database.

Jeffrey Needham

#77. One of the differences between boy gangs and girl gangs is for girls it's much more relational and much less violent.

Meda Chesney-Lind

#78. Our comfort in theological traditions should never usurp our desire for spiritual Truth. If we vigorously pursue the rituals rather than a relational experience with God then we've missed His message entirely.

Jason Versey

#79. In a brain scan, relational pain - that caused by isolation during punishment - can look the same as physical abuse. Is alone in the corner the best place for your child?

Daniel J. Siegel

#80. About 80% of what it takes to lead transformationally is relational.

Jim Louwsma

#81. Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive.

Parker J. Palmer

#82. We are the relationships that make us; we have our being in and through relationships that place us into reality, and therefore we are open ontologically to the possibility of encounter.

Andrew Root

#83. The world is inseparable from the subject, but from a subject which is nothing but a project of the world, and the subject is inseparable from the world, but from a world which the subject itself projects.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#84. I wanted to be with Drew every minute. I wanted to drink him, sleep him, and inhabit his body. I wanted to spend the day in his pocket.

Randy Susan Meyers

#85. Don't get me wrong. I love to be alone. When I am by myself, I get to create my own version of reality where I am the popular girl and really pretty, and friends can't wait to talk to me. -Madisyn

Tara Michener

#86. What rubs off on me is hard to rub off. So, I'd better figure out what I rubbing up against.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#87. You are real! Everyone has to be different or the world would be really boring. If we all looked the same, then no one could tell us apart. -Janelle

Tara Michener