The phrase "a proper relation between" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the appropriate or suitable connections or interactions between two or more entities, concepts, or elements.
Example: "Establishing a proper relation between the two departments is essential for effective collaboration."
Alternatives: "an appropriate connection between" or "a suitable relationship between".
Since a proper relation to God is arguably more important than any other social relation, we can also understand why moral obligations trump other kinds of obligations.
"Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside," he pronounced in a letter to his son, "is the proper relation between a man of sense and his books".
A lot of pastors hold to the traditional Biblical definition of the proper relation between a husband and wife.
Indeed, there is an ongoing debate about the proper relation between just war theory and pacifism that focuses on the question of whether the just war theory begins with a pacifist presumption against war.
The Islamists might have scored major electoral victories since the Arab Spring, but as these countries' various attempts to define, each in its own way, the proper relation between religion and the state reveal, a new openness has come to the region.
Defining the proper relation between religion and politics in Egypt is a complicated matter that can't be settled in haste or spite.
A new row about a similar subject, piffling though it seems, raises important questions about the proper relation between academe and politics, and the freedom (or otherwise) of scholarly endeavour.Some British academics don't like Ariel Sharon.
The understanding that Roman Catholicism has of itself, its interpretation of the proper relation between the church and the state, and its attitude toward other Christian traditions are all based upon Roman Catholic doctrine.
With so many conflicting views about the nature of Judaism, the proper relation between religion and the state in Israel, the wisdom of rebuilding the Temple given what that would do to our relations with our neighbors, you have to wonder: On Tisha B'av, we mourn the destruction of a Temple and pray for our people's revival, but revival into what?
