Relationships God Quotes

#1. Christopher McCandless:I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.

Shunryu Suzuki

#2. But in all His relationships, God reaches for man. Reaches for you who have fallen and scraped your heart raw, for you who feel the shame of words that have snaked off your tongue and poisoned corners of your life, for you who keep trying to cover up pain with perfectionism.

Ann Voskamp

#3. It's never easy letting go. But if we don't learn the art of relinquishment, we'll never move forward to embrace the new relationships God has for us.

Mary E. DeMuth

#4. When we have difficult relationships, God often uses them as gifts in our lives - to shape us, conform us to His Son, and make us gutsier and stronger.

Mary E. DeMuth

#5. You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.

Jon Krakauer

#6. Marriage is what you make of it, and God has many versions of what that looks like based on what different souls need, in order to grow.

Shannon L. Alder

#7. Math has proven the existence of God, because it is absolute and without contradiction; but the devil must exist as well, because we cannot prove it

Yoko Ogawa

#8. The answer goes back to why God created us.He created us to be His loved ones,His family with whom He can share a relationship of mutual enjoyment. This shows the kind of God He is-a personal God who values loving relationships more than anything else in all the universe.

Ruth Myers

#9. Then let me be your mercy," he said. "I'll never be able to give you smart answers about why we suffer, but I can come into your world and try to be some kind of help to you.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#10. Your love for your friend should be grounded in Me, and for My sake you should love whoever seems to be good and is very dear to you in this life. Without Me friendship has no strength and cannot endure. Love which I do not bind is neither true nor pure.

Thomas A Kempis

#11. No connection can ever be broken if love holds tight at both ends.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. All of us have areas of weakness. God wants these character flaws to show us how totally dependent we are upon Him. When we handle them properly, they drive us into a deeper, more intimate relationship with the Lord. But uncontrolled weakness wreaks havoc in a person's life.

Charles Stanley

#13. Rejection Is God's Protection
When someone rejects or breaks up with you, it may be a blessing in disguise. The person was not right for you. Or maybe you would have eventually been miserable with them. Now the door is open for someone else much better to come into your life.

Pamela Cummins

#14. I call them sacred echoes because I noticed that throughout my relationships, daily life, and study, the same scripturally sound idea or phrase or word will keep reappearing until I can no longer avoid its presence. -The Sacred Echo

Margaret Feinberg

#15. No outbreak of jealousy or malice has ever been welcomed in God's eyes." Beatrix continued, "nor shall such an outbreak ever be welcomed in the eyes of your family. If you have sentiments within you that are unpleasant or uncharitable, let them fall stillborn to the ground.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#16. Relationships program our minds as to what is and isn't an acceptable way to be treated.

Ruthie Dean

#17. God's love is a costly love. It never takes the easy path away from relationships. Instead, it plots how to move towards other people. It thinks creatively of ways to surprise them with love.

Edward T. Welch

#18. The more I see God in these relationships with my children, the more I've become aware of how easily we can wall God's presence off from very important areas of our lives.

Ed Cyzewski

#19. There is a mathematics to all his relationships, underlying each and every one. He wants it to all add up in his head and he wants to do the adding. And should someone step outside his ciphers, the circle his mind has drawn, his trust evaporates.

Geoffrey Wood

#20. Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships..

Ansel Adams

#21. Relationships prove that God exists.

Nityananda Das

#22. 'It's not you, it's me.'
'Oh God. That's exactly what my last three boyfriends said when they dumped me. Is it in the Y-Chromosome User's Manual or something?'
He grinned. 'On page five. But, you know, don't tell anyone I told you.'

Kim Fielding

#23. I am not a good example of an urban pastor. Because of the way I believe God calls me to use my time, I don't have significant relationships with most of my neighbors.

John Piper

#24. God's true love pretty much nullifies dating as we know it ...
It seems that dating as we have come to know it doesn't really prepare us for marriage; instead it can be a training ground for divorce. We cannot practice life-long commitment in a series of short-term relationships.

Joshua Harris

#25. I can no longer pretend that I believe in God. It's highly possible that I lost this belief when I started having sexual relationships.

Catherine Millet

#26. Locating friendship at the heart of mission involves certain assumptions
that reconciliation with God is something for which every human being is made and relationships are reciprocal.

Christopher Heuertz

#27. A Plan B life can be just as good or better than a Plan A life. You just have to let go of that first dream and realize that God has already written the first chapter of the new life that awaits you. All you have to do is start reading!

Shannon L. Alder

#28. You realize you've forgiven people, your past and yourself when you don't speak bad about them anymore, even if you're encouraged to do so, even if you remember you were once brutally broken because of them ...
you just move on, let go, let them be and let yourself be ...

Sanhita Baruah

#29. We forget that God's primary goal ia not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

Paul David Tripp

#30. God has made relationships His chosen delivery system for the gospel of hope.

Ed Stetzer

#31. God calls us into personal relationships with Him. We share Him best when we personally relate to others. - Katherine Mitchell -

Gary Chapman

#32. For Christians typical dating can often be a swerver - an approach to relationships that wants to go in a different direction than the one God has for us.

Joshua Harris

#33. God lures us into marriage through love and sex and loneliness, or simply the fact that someone finally paid attention - all those reasons that you got married in the first place. It doesn't really matter, he'll do whatever it takes. He lures us into marriage and then he uses it to transform us.

John Eldredge

#34. You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us.

Christopher McCandless

#35. Yet you stand, too ashamed to run, too fearful to embrace. God I see so much of
what I love in that face.

Suenammi Richards

#36. Intimate relationships only have God's blessing if the man and woman are married.

Sunday Adelaja

#37. From Genesis to Revelation, holy text is all about relationships and the limitless flavors of those relationships. It is the duty of mankind to tap into our women's unique talents
their genius for 'relationships.'
pg vii

Michael Ben Zehabe

#38. God knows, I'm no expert on relationships, but I do know when something's good. And this thing we've created between us is precious and rare. I only hope it's not fleeting, because for the first time in my adult life, I've given someone the power to hurt me.

Linda Castillo

#39. Focus on relationships in your communities and God will come up spiritual conversations will emerge and real needs will come to light.

Matt Smay

#40. The violation of the priority of love for God leads to disruption of harmonious relationships.

Sunday Adelaja

#41. A heartbreak is a blessing from God. It's just His way of letting you realize, He saved you from the wrong one

Anonymous

#42. Am you building up your house, or are you tearing it down? Your 'house' is the sphere of relationships that God has placed you in.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#43. offer you what is needed for true value and self-worth. True security comes only within the framework of your relationship with God. Relationships

Debra Fileta

#44. The simple power of prayer can save us all kinds of time and trouble if we will ask God to give us wisdom and discernment in our relationships.

Joyce Meyer

#45. Choose a single, sacred word or phrase that captures something of the flavor of your intimate relationship with God. A word such as Jesus, Abba, Peace, God or a phrase such as "Abba, I belong to you." ... Without moving your lips, repeat the sacred word inwardly, slowly, and often.

Brennan Manning

#46. We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.

Mary E. DeMuth

#47. Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#48. God reveals herself through our relationships not only to other people but also to other creatures and nature.

Carter Heyward

#49. If this world was made by a triune God, relationships of love are what life is really all about.

Timothy Keller

#50. It takes mystical insight to see the beauty and innocence in each other, even when that is not what we are showing to the world. That is why God is needed in intimate relationships, to move us beyond the perceptions that can so often poison love.

Marianne Williamson

#51. Don't think too small about what God could do in your life - be prepared for God to do a big thing.

Stormie O'martian

#52. In our culture it is seen as a sign of weakness to actually seek help from someone else. And yet, as Christians, God designed us to need each other - He designed us to lean upon the body of Christ for support, prayer, wisdom, and even practical help.

Leslie Ludy

#53. If we are co-eternal with God, then it is not God's creation of the human out of nothing that defines our essential relationship to him. It is His freely made choice to inaugurate and sustain loving relationships, and our choice to reciprocate, that are at the core of our relationship to the Divine.

Terryl L. Givens

#54. Since I was both an atheist and an absurdist, I had decided that the most absurd thing I could do would be to develop an intimate relationship with the God I didn't believe in.

Paul Krassner

#55. No matter how much you talk to yourself, read, study, or practice, you can't develop or set boundaries apart from supportive relationships with God and others. Don't even try to start setting limits until you have entered into deep, abiding attachments with people who will love you no matter what.

Henry Cloud

#56. When a man is walking in his purpose there is only room for one woman to walk with him.

Stephan Labossiere

#57. The truth is in Jesus and it leads to the fullness of truth about God, man, creation, history, sin, righteousness, grace, faith, salvation, life, death, purpose, meaning, relationships, heaven, hell, judgement, eternity, and everything else of ultimate consequence.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#58. Going without food or water will kill the body, but the lack of relationship will kill the mind and spirit.

David Jeremiah

#59. The T.D. Jakes Relationship Bible: Life Lessons on Relationships from the Inspired Word of God.

T.D. Jakes

#60. The danger with relationships when we are vulnerable is that we may not be able to evaluate them honestly and from a godly perspective. What is bitter may look sweet because of our weakened position.

Lois Mowday Rabey

#61. Trust God with your love life, and buckle up for the ride!

Paula Hendricks

#62. Whenever you want to know what's wrong or missing in your inner relationship with the Divine, stop, breathe deeply, and observe how is your relationship with the opposite sex.

Nityananda Das

#63. Only a passion for God's glory can overpower our self-interest. Submission is simply being empty of self, and this is the key to enduring relationships.

Susan Hunt

#64. Dating with no regrets means keeping your focus on Jesus, so that no matter what happens in your relationships with others, your relationship with God remains intact.

Debra Fileta

#65. Mercy is not giving someone what they deserve. Grace is giving someone what they don't deserve. Extend God's wisdom in your relationships.

Andrew Wommack

#66. God made us for relationships before he made us for tasks.

Todd Stocker

#67. Now every daughter of Eve want to "control her surrounding, her relationships, her God." No longer is she vulnerable; now she will be grasping. No longer does she want simply to share in the adventure; she wants to control it.

John Eldredge

#68. God's Word is your owner's manual for life. It contains principles for health, finance, marriage, other relationships, business, and much more.

Rick Warren

#69. Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives.

Henri Nouwen

#70. The liberating encounter with God/ess is always an encounter with our authentic selves resurrected from underneath the alienated self. It is not experienced against, but in and through relationships, healing our broken relations with our bodies, with other people, with nature.

Rosemary Radford Ruether

#71. Living the rest of your life for the glory of God will require a change in your priorities, your schedule, your relationships, and everything else.

Rick Warren

#72. There's only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.

Stormie O'martian

#73. Having a girlfriend was no longer my greatest need. Knowing and obeying Him was . I wanted to please Him in my relationships even if it meant looking radical and foolish to other people - even if it meant kissing dating goodbye.

Joshua Harris

#74. If the narrative we've adopted says that our lives have to get better in order for our relationships with God to be legitimate, we twist the gospel into a moral improvement scheme.

Tullian Tchividjian

#75. We know, then, what human father-hood ought to look like on the basis of how our Father God behaves toward us. But the reverse is also true. We see something of the way our God is fatherly toward us through our relationships with human fathers.

Russell D. Moore

#76. Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#77. Every loving word and action create a far reaching ripple effect - like the waves of the ocean.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#78. In some cases abusive or damaged relationships cannot and should not be saved.

Toni Sorenson

#79. The body releases its electricity, merges with another, and together there is something like God in this pleasure. But afterward, in the quiet redolent air, there must also be offerings of truth. And so the mystery of love deepens.

Steve Almond

#80. One of the greatest joys of not judging others is becoming capable of discerning God's will in a difficult situation. Pg 152

John Kuypers

#81. No one is saved alone, as an isolated individual, but God attracts us looking at the complex web of relationships that take place in the human community. God enters into this dynamic, this participation in the web of human relationships.

Pope Francis

#82. The measure of life is revealed in the quality of our relationships: with God, our families, our fellow men. - A Perfect Day by Richard Paul Evans

Richard Paul Evans

#83. We must remember how to love, remember what's important, and remember God's truth as it applies to our relationships.

Karen Kingsbury

#84. Whenever your foundation is laid in God, there will be nothing that can shake it, no matter how strong the storm is.

Angelo M. Swinson

#85. The essence of wisdom, from a practical standpoint, is pausing long enough to look at our lives-invitations, opportunities, relationships-from God's perspective. And then acting on it

Charles Stanley

#86. For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.

Deepak Chopra

#87. When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life
trust, love, mercy, and altruism
then we shall know that the kingdom of God is here.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#88. Pray that your marriage is one in which you both agree & that God will be in the center of it

Stormie O'martian

#89. I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.

Aimee Carter

#90. I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands.

Gretchen Mol

#91. God doesn't ordain stupidity.

Shannon L. Alder

#92. Baby, God ain't gonna bless you with another woman's husband, not today, not tomorrow, not ever.

Tracy L. Darity

#93. Two things we want so desperately, glory and relationship, can coexist only in God.

Timothy Keller

#94. Life has always been about God winning. He will send you a miracle that will take you through the conflict in your life into a better situation that will create the most peace in the world
if you only believe.

Shannon L. Alder

#95. I beg women to wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don't expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright. And to the men I say be careful with us, please. Be circumspect.

Elisabeth Elliot

#96. Son, make this world a better place with that beautiful mind of yours. And when you have a family of your own, love them beyond measure even when it means letting them be free to do what God intends them to do.

Jo Ann V. Glim

#97. The essence of every single person on this planet it God.

Dr. Milan LaBrey

#98. Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God.

Timothy Keller

#99. But when the world can turn around and see a group of God's people exhibiting substantial healing in the area of human relationships in their present life, then the world will take notice.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#100. The stars, like the hollow eyes of a god forgotten, marry the sadness of the exhausted hour and inspire a little chaos, a little gentleness, to those below.

I look up at the sky and see everything I've ever lost,
waiting for me.

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