Quotes about Boundaries

When you try to exercise authority within a department that is outside your core competencies, you will hinder everything and everyone under your watch. If you fail to distinguish between authority and competence, you will exert your influence in ways that damage projects and people. To put it bluntly, there are things you are responsible for that you should keep your nose out of.

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.

Tree at my window, window tree,My sash is lowered when night comes on;But let there never be curtain drawnBetween you and me.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to knowWhat I was walling in or walling out.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

The man's position is not up for grabs, just as it is not his to give away. The woman's place is not the man's for the taking, nor is it hers to forfeit. The two must stand together in their respective roles. What we have been given to guard, we should never yield to another.

If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.

What other people think of you is not your business. If you start to make that business your business, you will be offended for the rest of your life.

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.

Put the brakes on any runaway mental conversations you may be having with those who have wounded you.

The organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us the Bible doesn't. So I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. Some people won't understand, but I don't give an account to some people.