Husbands In The Bible Quotes & Sayings

Imitate the sun. Don't worry if people understand you. Just shine shine shine. — Ben Lee

We have noted thatthe two creation stories contained no pointers toward male "headship" in the sense that men or husbands are supposed to exercise authority or leadership over women or wives. But the audience of Genesis knew that patriarchy was a reality of life. Genesis here tells them how this came to be. Male authority or domination was not God's design but a consequence of a breakdown in relationship between humanity and God, between humanity and the animal world, and between human beings and one another. From now on, the Bible will assume the reality of patriarchy and of male headship, but it begins by noting that this came about only as a result of those various breakdowns of relationship. — John E. Goldingay

You don't know what it's like, when your best friend disappears. — Scott Westerfeld

The next morning, my head and every muscle in my body hurt as if I'd run a marathon through six feet of snow in stilettos. — Courtney Allison Moulton

Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

An angry discussion followed, during which belligerent ministers, who had come to the convention in an attempt to disrupt it, read aloud passages from the Bible to disprove Antoinette Brown's contention of equality. They read passages like "Let your women be silent in the churches; for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience," and "Likewise, ye wives, be in subection to your own husbands. — Miriam Gurko

Men and women in their very essence -in their souls if you wish- have natural parity. (...) This was a relatively new idea at the time [of Shakespeare]. It ran counter to the teaching in the Bible -Eve's being made out of Adam's rib to be his helpmate -which was the basis for the idea, held for so long, that women do not have souls of their own but are dependent on their fathers' and husbands' . — Tina Packer

With every person we engage, in everything we do, we must be kinder than expected, more generous than anticipated, more positive than we thought possible. Every moment in front of another human being is an opportunity to express our highest values and to influence someone with our humanity. We can make the world better, one person at a time. There — Robin S. Sharma

In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships. — Federico Garcia Lorca

I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands. — Thomas Jefferson

It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother. — Gary D. Schmidt

Trust me, Joe. You're not a cowboy. The only cows you ever saw as a kid came under a plastic wrap in the grocery store or in a paper wrapped from McDonald's. (Tee) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The battle for our lives, and the lives and souls of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, our neighbors, and our nation is waged on our knees. When we don't pray, it's like sitting on the sidelines watching those we love and care about scrambling through a war zone, getting shot at from every angle. When we do pray, however, we're in the battle alongside them, approaching God's power on their behalf. If we also declare the Wordog God in our prayers, then we wield a powerful weapon against which no enemy can prevail. — Stormie O'martian

One thing about intimidation is that people can always think up something worse that you could do to them than you can, if you leave their imagination some room to play. — Jim Butcher

The self is made, not given — Barbara Myerhoff

I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself. — Indra Devi

The Bible says, "Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered" (1 Peter 3:7). — Stormie O'martian

When you understand that you are your soul, then you will experience Life as an expression of the soul. — Neale Donald Walsch

I would like to say in defense of the Christian religion that there are nice things about it. There really are. And Marilyn can tear up the Bible all he wants and I understand why, but ... there's good things in the Bible. Good things. Like about, you know, not killing people, and ... you know ... not sleeping with people's husbands. — Courtney Love

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it. — Anthony Trollope

There was no denying that those brothers had penetration. — Jane Austen

In a dream you are never eighty. — Anne Sexton