Archive — marriage

“I just think the meanest thing a mother can do to her son is to put him in a position where he has to scold his mother, where he has to tell her to butt out or back off, and I choose to do that on my own.” - Annie Chapman

“When you first learn to dance, sometimes you spend a lot of time looking at your own feet, you step on toes unintentionally, it doesn’t look very pretty, you know, it’s kind of awkward. But when you learn to dance, at least in the literal realm of that, you get to choose your own partner. But in the mother-in-law dance, someone else chooses the partner.” - Annie Chapman

“A mother is that entity in a family that brings life, pleasure, transportation, commerce. She is an incredible asset to her family, until she overflows her banks. Until she gets out of her realm. As a child grows to maturity, she has got to back off and stay within her boundaries, regardless of how much she has invested in him, she has got to back away, and when he takes a wife, when he says, ‘I do,’ then I’m done. Does it mean I don’t love him anymore? Well, of course I love him, and my love demands me to back away because I don’t want him to have to choose.” - Annie Chapman

“When I watch my children struggle, and I watch them go through difficult times, as a mother, I keep wanting to peal the shell back and break it off and write that check and give that opinion and make that call, and yet, I realize now if I do that, I am making my children weak. As a good mother, I have to stand back and watch them free themselves from that eggshell.” - Annie Chapman

“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.