Self Relational Quotes

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

Surya Das

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

Parker J. Palmer

#3. 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

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

Jim Louwsma

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Jeffrey Needham

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

Britt Merrick

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Evelyn Hibbert

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Frederick Lenz

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Richard Rohr

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

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

John C. Maxwell

#28. 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

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

Anonymous

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

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

Juli Slattery

#35. 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

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

Gordon D. Fee

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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