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" God doesn't want us to have rigid rituals with Him. In the new covenant, He is more interested in having a relationship with us. "

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" In my relationship with God, I've learned that if I follow a 'formula' for how I spend my time with Him, then I'm just accomplishing a checklist of things I feel obligated to do to please Him. This makes my spiritual life more about doing what I need to do to fulfill an obligation than something meaningful. "

" Getting married isn't going to make your relationship better. It's just a ceremony. "

Getting Married

" When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him. "

" I think that anyone who lives in New York, who's lived here, who's spent any time here, knows that it's basically a love-hate relationship, you might say. Even though I still think it's the greatest city in the world and I wouldn't live anywhere else, there're still things about it one doesn't like. The love far outweighs the negative. "

" It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them. "

" I always think the relationship between a teacher and a student should be short and maybe violent. You don't need to spend years together. All you need is an explosion: you are the material to explode; the teacher is the detonator. "

" Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave. "

Elizabeth Gilbert

" I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness. "

" Sacrificing your relationship for your career sounds noble and romantic from the outside, but the reality is that it can create a pattern of self-destruction that will ultimately burn you out on the career you've worked so hard to build. It's a trap and, for some, an easy way out of having to maintain relationships under stress. "

Emily V. Gordon

" I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked. "

Gilbert Gottfried

" I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life. "

Jean-Claude Van Damme

" Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news. "

" Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering. "

" Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between. "

" I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours. "

Janeane Garofalo

" My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds. "

" I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives. "

" I have a really good relationship with Focus Features; we had a wonderful time working together on 'Sin Nombre.' "

Working Together

" No relationships are perfect. When they develop, there are things that have happened before in your life that you maybe don't discuss. And there are always fault lines within every relationship. I believe it doesn't take too much pressure to be placed on those fault lines for them to start cracking apart. "

" Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men. "

" The British are very stubborn. The Queen, the Commonwealth, and the special relationship with the U.S. is much more important than Europe. "

" Our view is that younger customers love our digital offering, our mobile banking applications and so on. Older customers expect relationship managers and want much more personal attention in terms of their needs. "

" Our relationship with Egypt is very, very important. And I would want them to remain an ally. I don't want to see that official status change. "

" What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.' "

" Couples need time alone to renew their relationship. They also need to sustain supportive networks of friends and family. "

Stephanie Coontz

" People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile; it puts a lot of stress on a relationship. "

" The true test of a relationship is traveling together. "

" I think there's such a fine line in a relationship. The role of imagination and privacy... how much space can you allow before that becomes distance? And similarly, imagination is empathy. That's how you achieve empathy. It's how you can be with another person and understand how they are in the world. "

" A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love. "

" Isn't it interesting that God appears holy when he's gracious? "