Quotes about Respect

Memoirs of the North Africa campaign attest that, fierce and brutal as much of the fighting was, relations between individual enemies retained a quality of forbearance that seems, today, almost impossible to imagine. This

Submission is something you give from your heart, not something demanded of you.

It's interesting that God requires the husband to love his wife, but the wife is required to have respect for her husband.

Teach us how to openly express love for one another, and keep us from any laziness or selfishness that would cause us to neglect to do that. Help us to refuse to speak words that tear down, but only words that build up (Ephesians 4:29).

we can't force our spouses to do what we want them to do

If you love someone, you don't act like they annoy you. You like them, and you try and make them think they're the most important person in the world to you.

Rules without relationship leads to rebellion.

Are you quick to listen? Listening is an expression of humility and genuine concern for others. ... .If we want to truly know and understand other people, we have to care what they feel and think, not arrogantly assume that we already know.

A bagel shop isn't the most romantic spot to tell a girl you like her. But that night romance wasn't the priority. Our time there wasn't intended to be mushy. I didn't propose marriage or say I was madly in love with her, and she didn't swoon. What I did tell her was that through our friendship I'd grown to respect her.

We should never use spiritual activities as a way to grab for more intimacy than is appropriate for our relationship.

Don't concern yourself with being right in others' eyes. And don't secretly hope that their lives will fall apart so that your opinion will be vindicated. Instead, concentrate on obeying God in your own life and, when possible, helping others to obey Him as well. You don't have to prove others wrong to continue on the course you know God has shown you.

God gave people 2 ears and 1 mouth because He wants us to listen twice as much as we talk.