Sheila Wray Gregoire Quotes & Sayings

Life doesn't have to be a freeform stream of consciousness, where any thought that comes into our heads is entertained. — Sheila Wray Gregoire

Billions of people have had sex. I don't know how many have actually made love. — Sheila Wray Gregoire

Whatever you tolerate will continue. If he's doing something wrong - not just something that's irritating - you need to stop tolerating it. This is not the same as trying to change him. It simply means that you change how you react to him. — Sheila Wray Gregoire

Even if you don't always feel love, you can act love. — Sheila Wray Gregoire

Marriages only work well when both sides desist from keeping scorecards of each other's performance. — Sheila Wray Gregoire

Intimacy is about sharing something with your spouse that you don't share with anybody else. It's letting him in. It's laughing together. And it's also feeling that deep hunger for each other! — Sheila Wray Gregoire

Your purity is not based on what you've done with your body. It's based on what Jesus did with His. — Sheila Wray Gregoire

Commitment matters. And commitment to the marriage doesn't just mean saying, "I'm staying 'til death do us part - even if I have to make everyone miserable in the process." It means saying, "I commit, every day, to make this marriage the best it can be." Commitment is an active, daily decision, not a one-time vow. — Sheila Wray Gregoire

Six is old enough to know how to pick a lock, but not old enough to know that you don't want to be picking that lock. — Sheila Wray Gregoire

When two people love each other sacrificially, they will find happiness. If they aim for happiness instead of aiming to love, they will ultimately fail to achieve either. — Sheila Wray Gregoire

Sex is not about genitalia. It's about relationship. When God said 'the two shall become one flesh,' he didn't mean it only physically. — Sheila Wray Gregoire

Maxine Hancock says we should think of ourselves as the servant leaders of our homes. I think by the addition of the word leaders, she implies that while we serve we should also command respect. — Sheila Wray Gregoire

Most of us save our best behavior for those whom we barely know and show our worst side to those we know the best. — Sheila Wray Gregoire