#relation

Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust. ↗

— Richard Wright

#relationships #experience

I thought he should have realized sooner that important people don't show up very often, and you should hold on to them when they do. Maybe I was smarter than he was all along, because that was something I'd always known. ↗

— Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

#relationships #love

The pain of losing Deborah still brings tears. And I cannot mask my profound disappointment that God did not answer yes to our prayers for healing. I think He's okay with that. One of the phrases we evangelicals like to throw around is that Christianity is 'not a religion; it's a relationship.' I believe that, which is why I know that when my faith was shattered and raged against Him, He still accepted me. And even though I have penciled a black mark in His column, I can be honest about it. That's what a relationship is all about. ↗

— Ron Hall

#faith

Judgments are like a snowball. They stick to you. As time rolls along, the snowball becomes a boulder and then an avalanche. ↗

— John Kuypers

#happiness #marriage #non-judgment #relationships #faith

Looking through the ruby glass one cannot see the true colour of the sky. ↗

— Lara Biyuts

#gods #life #love #relationship #sex

You don't appreciate a faithful husband when you've got one,' said Tommy. 'All my friends tell me you never know with husbands,' said Tuppance. 'You have the wrong kind of friends,' said Tommy. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#faithfulness #friends #funny #humor #husband

If there is a particular person in your life that is repeatedly choosing not to honor you and is causing you more sadness or pain than they are joy - it might be time to release that friendship back to God and trust that it is not where you belong. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#friends #friendships #god #honoring-yourself #joy

But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#family #relationships #equality

More people are leaving TV behind to read my books than ever before. In the last year alone I gained over two readers (three, to be exact). So I’d like to take a moment and say thanks mom, dad, and kidnap victim I keep chained in the basement. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#books #coercion #dad #family #gratitude

He doesn’t have to love your CD collection. He doesn’t have to love your shoes. But any good, mature guy better make an attempt to love your friends and family—especially when they’re great. ↗

— Greg Behrendt

#guys #men #relationships #family