• 92 "life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship"
• pg 114 "I am with you, and I am not lost. I'm sorry it feels that way, but hear me clearly. You are not lost"
• 122-123-- "It's one reason why experiencing true relationship is so difficult for you," Jesus added. "Once you have a hierarchy, you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law & the enforcement of the rules, and you end up with some kind of chain of command or system of order that destroys relationship rather than promotes it. You rarely see or experience relationship apart from power. Hierarchy imposes laws and rules and you end up missing the wonder of relationship that we intended for you."

124 if you truly learned to regard each others concerns as significant as your own, there would be no need for hierarchy,

• 126 "Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved. Because you do not know that I love you, you cannot trust me.
• 142 'Mack, do you realize that your imagination of the future, which is almost always dictated by fear of some kind, rarely, if ever, pictures me there with you?"
• 145 "Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect. In fact, we are submitted to you in the same way." "Genuine relationships are marked by submission even when your choices are not helpful or healthy."