Intentional Relationships Quotes

I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human tendency because of our culture to think that the more people I talk to, the bigger the impact I'll have, and yet Jesus didn't spend His time just speaking to the masses. He spent the bulk of his time with a small group of people.

Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

The people in my life are friends I have by choice. I've made a conscious effort to have them in life. I only have the time and energy for so many people, which has cut down my friend group to a handful, but I'm so much happier with fewer good people, who really do know me.

I don't pay attention to a lot of people - I pay attention to a select few, and that's worked out well for me.

The people God put in your life are not there by accident. Don’t get so busy that you just give them your leftover time.

Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct. I need to be loved by someone who chooses to love me, who sees in me something worth loving.

No friendship is an accident.

A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to grow spiritually. They use their emotions to show them how to create constructive and healthy and joyful consequences instead of destructive and unhealthy and painful consequences.

We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.

You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.