Better half Quote by Winston T. Smith

“It’s as if we believe the general duties of love are fundamentally different from our specific duties as husbands and wives.”

— Winston T. Smith

“Your actions, regardless of their effect on others, always change you, either leading you to become a more loving person or a more hardened,…

— Winston T. Smith

“But the way we exercise authority and define our marital roles often doesn’t seem informed by a biblical understanding of love at all. Some…

— Winston T. Smith

“To the extent that you use authority to manage your own fears and feed your own desires, you’re subverting Jesus’ authority and enthroning yourself.”

— Winston T. Smith

“We need to be careful not to read the challenges of our own hearts, our personal assumptions, and our cultural assumptions about gender into…

— Winston T. Smith

“the most critical ingredient of an intimate relationship is trust. You have to know that the other person means what he or she says,…

— Winston T. Smith

“Remember what sin and idolatry are really about: attempts to play God, to make everything and everyone serve you and your desires. To sin…

— Winston T. Smith

“Because we’re made in God’s image we can’t fully escape knowledge of ourselves, and of God’s purity, holiness, and wrath. We were made to…

— Winston T. Smith

“Jesus didn’t just tolerate the sinners that thronged to him; he reached out and touched them. He visited tax collectors in their homes; invited…

— Winston T. Smith

“God encourages his people, not by denying the beauty and grandeur of the previous temple but by pointing them to how he intends to…

— Winston T. Smith

“We’re accustomed to thinking about love as an emotion or an experience that happens to us, but the Bible teaches us that love isn’t…

— Winston T. Smith

“don’t just wish things were different. Don’t just look for the easy way out. Don’t let go until you get every blessing that God…

— Winston T. Smith