Quotes on Relationships & Family

Christian quotes on Relationships & Family — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on the marriage that sustains your love.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When you see a child, you catch God in the act.

Martin Luther

We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish; but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.

C.S. Lewis

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

C.S. Lewis

To love is to be vulnerable.

C.S. Lewis

Our sexuality is not our soul, marriage is not heaven, and singleness is not hell.

Jackie Hill Perry

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

Helen Keller

Tugas pertama mencintai adalah mendengar.

Paul Tillich

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.

Thomas Merton

God did not make the other person the way I would have made him.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Ships wreck on rocks; human relationships often wreck on mere pebbles.

Edith Stein

The most important thing in preparing for marriage is not finding the right partner, but becoming the right partner.

Robertson McQuilkin

Rules without relationship lead to rebellion.

Josh McDowell

Let us not seek who was right or wrong, but let us reconcile.

Pope John XXIII

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Henry Ward Beecher

Gossip is saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face; flattery is saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or her back.

Kent Hughes

My ability to heal cannot be conditional on them wanting my forgiveness but only on my willingness to give it.

Lysa TerKeurst

Some people seem to want to rush me through my sadness. They want to fix me. But I lost someone I loved dearly, and I'm sad.

Nancy Guthrie

The way of Jesus is not a sequence of exceptions to the ordinary, but a way of living deeply and fully with the people here and now, in the place we find ourselves.

Eugene Peterson

The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to start feeling accepted, start taking their words more seriously and discovering their own true selves. Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality.

Henri Nouwen

Our children are our most important guests, who enter into our home, ask for careful attention, stay for a while and then leave to follow their own way. Children are strangers whom we have to get to know.

Henri Nouwen

My wife has lived with at least five different men since we were wed—and each of the five has been me.

Tim Keller

Over the years you will go through seasons in which you have to learn to love a person who you didn’t marry, who is something of a stranger.

Tim Keller

I owe the best Bible translation to my mother. She translated the Bible into life.

John Thiessen

What you see in the other, you kindle in them.

Hanna Hümmer

[Gossip is] telling someone privileged, negative information about another when the recipient is neither part of the problem nor part of the solution.

John Loftness

That said, no family of origin is healthy enough to transform us into the kind of love we see in Jesus, and no family is dysfunctional enough to keep us from becoming people of love in Jesus.

John Mark Comer

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.

Tim Keller

The really great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A friend is someone before whom one can think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take people as they are; there are no others.

Konrad Adenauer

The best way to be a good father to your children is to be a good husband to their mother.

Jay Adams

If you are drawn into a controversy, use very hard arguments and very soft words.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

To have peace and love in a marriage is a gift that is next to the knowledge of the gospel.

Martin Luther

He who can no longer listen patiently to his neighbor will soon be talking past him and will finally no longer even notice it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Christian relationship between the strong and the weak is that the strong should look up to the weak and never look down on them.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The best gift a man can give to his children is to love their mother.

Paul Washer

People quoted here

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King Jr., C.S. Lewis, Jackie Hill Perry, Helen Keller, Paul Tillich, Thomas Merton, Edith Stein, Robertson McQuilkin, Josh McDowell, Pope John XXIII

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