Why must I be lonely in love?

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

The last love is the most lasting of loves

They do not love that do not show their love.

Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love.

Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship.

In family relationships love is really spelled t-i-m-e, time.

I love coming home to somebody, I love being in a relationship.

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

Christianity is not a legal relationship; it is a love relationship.

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

Ask anyone who has been in a love relationship for a while: nothing is perfect.

I've been in love before, every love-relationship is tough and it has its challenges.

The most functional way to regulate difficult emotions in love relationships is to share them.

Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God.

I believe the relationship you have with your government is not so different to a love relationship.

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

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

One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure

I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

Without good communication both verbally and non-verbally, then the love relationship is not sustainable and cannot grow.

The first love affair you must consummate is the love affair with yourself. Only then are you ready for a romantic relationship.

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

Christianity is a love relationship between a child of God and his Maker through the Son Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit.

I think, as most people are, I'm fascinated with love, relationships, and my daily life so I'm very inclined to make films about those things.

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

The purpose of a relationship is to decide what part of yourself you'd like to see 'show up', not what part of another you can capture and hold.

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves

Sometimes I live in fear. But when I have to take chances about people I love, relationships, my daughter and immediate family, those decisions are easy.

Revival is a divinely initiated work in which God’s people pray, repent of their sin, and return to a holy, Spirit-filled, obedient, love-relationship with God.

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

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.

Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.

There is nothing better than giving up everything and stepping into a passionate love relationship with God, the God of the universe who made galaxies, leaves, laughter, and me and you.

Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.

If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.

It doesn't matter what the other is being, doing, having, saying, wanting, demanding. It doesn't matter what the other is thinking, expecting, planning. It only matters what you are being in relationship to that.

In love relationships, there's such intimacy, and the potential to be the most vulnerable and honest and raw with another person. Why can't we have that transparency with everyone in our lives and reach that higher connection?

One hardly dares to say that love is the core of the relationship, though love is sought for and created in relationship; love is rather the marvel when it is there, but it is not always there, and to know another and to be known by another - that is everything.

Love is not a relationship, love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not "in love", one is love. And of course when one is love, one is in love – but that is an outcome, a by-product, that is not the source. The source is that one is love.

The proof of the depth and embodiment of your realization will be seen in your love relationship. That's where the proof is in the pudding. If it all collapses in your relationship, you have some work to do. And people do have a lot of difficulties in their relationships.

The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated state of fear, need, lack, and incompleteness that is part of the human condition in its unredeemed and unenlightened state.

The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find.

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