Quotes about Boundaries
If you're not married, and your boyfriend is putting his hands on you, you know he ain't the one, because you know that will continue.
— Tony Evans
Tithing is a bad ceiling but an excellent floor.
— John Ortberg
Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have 'no time in the day to themselves.' 1852
— Florence Nightingale
No, you won't. And I won't be enough for you, Amanda. I don't want to be the center of your life. I want to be part of it. I want to be your husband, not your god. People can't always be there for you, no matter how much they want to be. And that includes me.
— Francine Rivers
To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will true nature be seen.
— Frank Herbert
We must not confuse the command to love with the disease to please.
— Lysa TerKeurst
He's not good for you, Omio said. He wants too much. He is someone who takes. He does not give.
— Madeleine L'Engle
It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
— Graham Greene
The providence of God, I grant, does not indeed preclude the faithful from caring for themselves; but let them do it in such a way, that they may not overstep their prescribed bounds.
— John Calvin
I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.
— Martin Luther
You're not RESPONSIBLE for somebody else's happiness. You're responsible for your own HAPPINESS.
— Joel Osteen
It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.
— George Eliot