Quotes about Boundaries
We tend to get in life what we are willing to tolerate.
— John Maxwell
Don't allow the unrealistic demands of others to march freely into your life.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Don't allow the unrealistic demands of others to march freely into your life.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Each and every thing I say yes to sets the pace of my life.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Saying yes all the time won't make me Wonder Woman. It will make me a worn out woman.
— Lysa TerKeurst
To conquer your biology, stop seeing people sexually and start seeing them as family. In our day, we have really a perverted notion where it's like strangers and potential sexual objects.
— Mark Driscoll
The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).
— John Piper
The only clear line I draw these days is this: when my religion tries to come between me and my neighbor, I will choose my neighbor. That self-canceling feature of my religion is one of the things I like best about it. Jesus never commanded me to love my religion.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
This kind of holy envy comes with its own safeguard. Although I am allowed to admire what is growing in the well-tended fields of my religious neighbors, I am not allowed to pull off the road and help myself. The things I envy have their own terroir, their own long histories of weather and fertilization. They do not exist to serve me, improve me, or profit me.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Although I am allowed to admire what is growing in the well-tended fields of my religious neighbors, I am not allowed to pull off the road and help myself. The things I envy have their own terroir , their own long histories of weather and fertilization. They do not exist to serve me, improve me, or profit me. They have their own dominion.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Most of us prefer to remain on our cow paths, where we know the language and we do not need maps because we know the way by heart. Some of us even stay behind our own fences because we do not want to be mistaken for interlopers in other people's pastures
— Barbara Brown Taylor
It is easy to make an idol of routine, finding security within the boundaries you build around your life. Although each day contains twenty-four hours, every single one presents a unique set of circumstances. Don't try to force-fit today into yesterday's mold.
— Sarah Young