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Quotes about Respect

It was lovely. Not to be stared at, not seen, but being pulled into view by the interested, uncritical eyes of the other.
- Toni Morrison
A good man is a good thing, but there is nothing in the world better than a good woman. She can be your mother, your wife, your girlfriend, your sister, or somebody you work next to. Don't matter. You find one, stay there. You see a scary one, make tracks.
- Toni Morrison
You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His face.
- Toni Morrison
That whites not only had no patent on Christianity; they were often its obstacle. That Jesus had been freed from white religion, and he wanted these kids to know that they did not have to beg for respect; it was already in them, and they needed only to display it.
- Toni Morrison
Carefully they replaced the soil and covered the entire grave with uprooted grass. Neither one had spoken a word.
- Toni Morrison
If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have serious problem.
- Toni Morrison
To fear God simply means to take God seriously, as opposed to taking God casually.
- Tony Evans
Each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband
- Tony Evans
God doesn't need you to be your husband's critic, his conscience, or his mother. Neither does he need you to sit down, fold your arms, and say, "Okay, that's it. I'm not going to do what I'm supposed to do until my husband starts doing what he's supposed to do.
- Tony Evans
A Christian wife who may be looking good on the outside, but who cuts her husband with her words, runs him down to her friends and family, and dishonors him in the children's presence is not beautiful by God's definition.
- Tony Evans
A healthy fear of the Lord keeps us from forgetting who we are and who He is.
- Tony Evans
God commands a wife to respect her husband. This word means to hold in high esteem, to lift up. It's closely connected with the word "reverence." Ladies, what your husband needs and craves from you more than anything else is respect. While you love to hear, "I love you," we men want and need to hear, "I respect you.
- Tony Evans