Quotes about Boundaries

The worst things you can do for the ones you love are the things they could and should do for themselves"—and

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.

Though he had determined upon this in the first moment of joyful enthusiasm, yet the delay of four-and-twenty hours had made a material change in his feelings; his most virtuous resolves were always rather the effect of sudden impulse than of steady principle. But when the tide of passion had swept away the landmarks, he had no method of ascertaining the boundaries of right and wrong.

True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.

A disciplined person not only knows how to say 'no' to themselves but 'no' to other people when they need to.

What about for your church? What boundaries has the gospel overrun that society fiercely respects?

Everything has its limit--iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair

There is a place in you that you must keep inviolate, a place that you must keep clean. A place where you say to any intruder, "Back up, don't you know I'm a child of God."