Quotes & Sayings About Godly Couples

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me. — Robert Louis Stevenson

seemed to her that such a one abdicated all claim to enjoy the fruits of those friendly relations with people of good position which prudent parents cultivate and store up for their children's benefit, for my great-aunt had actually ceased to 'see' the son of a lawyer we had known because he had married a 'Highness' and had thereby stepped down - in her eyes - from the respectable position of a lawyer's son to that of those adventurers, upstart footmen or stable-boys mostly, to whom we read that queens have sometimes shewn their favours. — Marcel Proust

A Brave Man in a Brave Country Surprised — Louise Penny

A family is a mystery. — Sharon Olds

I was never the class clown, and I've no idea where the comedy came from. — Jasper Carrott

We are sad for the hurting couples; it breaks our hearts, actually. But we are even more brokenhearted about the effect it has on the Kingdom. We are sad because godly marriages magnify God's ingenious creation, but few marriages radiate that glory. We are sad about the victory Satan enjoys in watching couples call themselves "Christian" while living idly, living for themselves. We are devastated by how many choose divorce over obeying the King. The sad state of marriage makes the bride of Christ look dirty and unattractive. We write in hopes of changing some of this. — Francis Chan

Arin smiled. It was a true smile, which let her know that all the others he had given her were not. — Marie Rutkoski

From the child itself he will learn how to perfect himself as an educator. — Maria Montessori

I had that overwhelming feeling I get when I'm about to give up on a plan, that big rush of air when I realize that my stroke of genius has flaws, and I don't have the brains or energy to fix them. — Gillian Flynn

man clings to the mother-hand of the past, till he can think and act alone. — Henry Harrison Brown

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture. — Quintilian

When your life is working there will be an absence of drama — Iyanla Vanzant

I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention. — Jennifer Weiner

I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years. — Ellen Swallow Richards