Tullian Tchividjian Quotes

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

I like my life alone. I mean, I love being with friends, and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it's hard to find someone who doesn't ultimately start judging you and your choices.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

When you love someone, you don't try to change them.

Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship.

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.

What I tell young couples that are getting married is: you're going to have quarrels, and on some things, you're just going to have to agree to disagree. And when you go to bed at night, kiss each other and tell each other that you love each other. Don't go to bed mad. Life is too short. Keep it simple.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.

How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one ever smacks anyone in the mouth?

What's realistic to me is that families love each other and stand by each other. What's unrealistic is that they would ever say that.

To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

It's fun to have a partner who understands your life and lets you be you.

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

It's so hard to have relationships when there is so much scrutiny.

You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.