Archive — marriage

“What we are finding is that in this culture shift, nothing is forbidden except, and this is where the legacy of political correctness really comes in, the one thing that is considered really dangerous, really toxic and should be stigmatized…are those who will not go along and accept everything.” - Albert Mohler

“This has been a learning curve for my father. I will never forget when I was in about my mid to upper twenties, and I was struggling through in some relationship and my dad said to me, he said, ‘Honey, your generation makes it so confusing…When I got married, your mother, she was beautiful. She was from a family of five and so was I. I thought she’d make a good wife and mother, and she was Baptist, and that was it.’” - Connally Gilliam

“I have been asked in a number of different settings, so, ‘Why aren’t you married?’ And it is one of those questions you never quite know what to do with because I think there really is a compliment implicit in it, but it is very easy to feel like, gosh, you are doing or you are being something wrong.” - Connally Gilliam

“I think in Christian culture, single men are a more valued commodity (than single women) because they are rarer. It is supply and demand, if you will, and there is something intrinsically then that ups the value, I think, of single men.” - Connally Gilliam

“You know, it is amazing to me, we have such difficulty as Christians historically getting this right… in getting a proper balance in terms of understanding that both celibacy and the marital estate are equally spiritual and holy estates, depending on how you are living in them.” - Richard Land

“As I began to examine the issue of pornography in our society and over sexualization of the culture, I realized very quickly that government actually does have a place and local governments do have a place in promoting virtue. That was always the goal of the founders, was that local governments…”, Ben Shapiro author of Porn Generation.

“There is this idea that liberty is all about rights, and about no responsibility at all. It should be the opposite. Liberty is always about both responsibility and rights. In fact, they are the same side of the same coin. There is no such thing as a right that does not come with some sort of responsibility.” Dr. Land talks with Ben Shapiro author of Porn Generation.

“Certain things you stand firm and you fight and you resist, and you win: spiritual warfare. In the area of sexual immorality, there is just one command—flee. I Corinthians 6, Flee sexual immorality.”

“Sex on the average college campus is what your parents would do as casually as shaking hands.”

“…I believe, in a way that was the highest cultural need and what I saw was people, number one, don’t know how to have meaningful loving relationships, don’t know when they’re in love and when they are not; they don’t know what the Scripture says about sex, not just the negative side but the positive side, and they don’t know how to make them last…”