Quotes about Relationship
What about the other wifely duties? Michael glanced back at her. -When it means something more to you than work, we'll consummate the marriage
— Francine Rivers
You have no idea the power a good woman has over a man. You made me think about the faith I thought Id lost. He gave a low laugh. You got me back inside a church. And, if all that isn't enough.. He took her hand, kissed the palm, and pressed it flat against his bare chest. She could feel the hard pounding of his heart. Does that make you feel safer?
— Francine Rivers
In a Christian marriage, Atretes, the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, he himself being the Savior of the body. But as the church is subject to Christ, so you will be subject to Christ, and so also Rizpah will be subject to you in everything. Love her, just as Christ also loves you and gave himself up for you. Sacrificially, willing even to die for her. Love her as you love your own body. Sustain and protect her in all circumstances.
— Francine Rivers
Whatever tomorrow brought, today she had Michael.
— Francine Rivers
Wayward, stubborn, contentious as he was, God loved him.
— Francine Rivers
But kids like us grow up and need our own relationship with God, forged in the heart through time and experience, not draped around us by the church we attend. We need to know God for ourselves, not secondhand.
— Frank Peretti
While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine—history will call us wives.
— Frank Herbert
As always, Paul experienced a sense of presence in his father, someone totally here.
— Frank Herbert
What better way to destroy me than to sow suspicion of the woman I love?
— Frank Herbert
There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love.
— Charles Stanley
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
— Henry Ward Beecher