Relational Quotes

“Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate, and their pack. They are experienced in adapting to constantly changing circumstances; they are fiercely stalwart and very brave.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“They were me, as I'd once been. And I was them, as they could be.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“The brainwaves we send out are the only ones others will surf back to our shores.‬”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“It’s not about describing someone as that’s typically an attempt to make whatever they are comfortable for whoever we are. Instead, we may wish to skip the agenda of the description and embrace the wonder of the person.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“All feedback is relevant, even if it's not true.”
― Ford Taylor, Relactional Leadership: When Relationships Collide with Transactions

“Radical discipleship takes place in a relational environment where people feel comfortable exploring their personal and spiritual issues and learning what it means to be a follower of Jesus.”
― Jonathan Hayashi, Ordinary Radicals: A Return to Christ-Centered Discipleship

“The therapist seeking to offer a relationship at depth does not use the relationship as a means to treat, cure or change the client's problem. The clients problem is accepted and respected as a expression of their self-experience, but it does not define the person: the therapist remains oriented towards the whole person - not towards the client's specific symptoms or difficulties.”
― Elke Lambers

“In the quest for “objective truth,” the the modern agenda distances the learner from the subject and therefore distances understanding.”
― Alex Sosler, Learning to Love: Christian Higher Education as Pilgrimage

“One of the weaknesses of the Evangelical church and the reason why it does not do restoration well is because it is theological, but it is not relational.”
― Darrin Patrick