Beyond Boundaries Quotes

“And healthy people love honesty. Normalizing truthfulness in your relationships is simply inserting your own realities into the conversation, the meeting, or the event.”
― John Townsend, Beyond Boundaries: Learning to Trust Again in Relationships

“Healthy intimate relationships involve a dedication of one’s self to the betterment of the other. You need someone who will count the cost of having an attachment to you and who is willing to then make a real commitment.”
― John Townsend, Beyond Boundaries: Learning to Trust Again in Relationships

“Love cannot exist without freedom.”
― John Townsend, Beyond Boundaries: Learning to Trust Again in Relationships

“Love can’t rule when shame is in charge.”
― John Townsend, Beyond Boundaries: Learning to Trust Again in Relationships

“So the best answer is to keep developing your own boundaries, your ability to say yes and no in love, and to be truthful. Then you will be confident in your abilities to take care of yourself in relationships, and you will enjoy getting to know those people you”
― John Townsend, Beyond Boundaries: Learning to Trust Again in Relationships

“And people who have trust issues typically prefer to find some way to disqualify a new relationship rather than to risk damage by making a poor judgment call. Better safe than sorry.”
― John Townsend, Beyond Boundaries: Learning to Trust Again in Relationships

“Love is not enough. Nor are attentiveness, romantic feelings, a charming personality, great competencies and skills, or promises to change. You need substance underneath the topping. Don’t sell yourself short. Character always wins over time.”
― John Townsend, Beyond Boundaries: Learning to Trust Again in Relationships

“We can learn to trust again, no matter what has happened, if we take the right path, step by step.”
― John Townsend, Beyond Boundaries: Learning to Trust Again in Relationships

“encourage one another daily, as long as it is called ‘Today,’ so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness” (Hebrews 3:13, emphasis added). We impact one another to the extent to which we mutually encourage each other. Without that, we run the risk of becoming hardened.”
― John Townsend, Beyond Boundaries: Learning to Trust Again in Relationships

“The more clear and honest you are with others about who you really are, the more ready you will be to move beyond boundaries and into the intimate connections you seek.”
― John Townsend, Beyond Boundaries: Learning to Trust Again in Relationships

“Sad to say, there are people whose insides are so dark that they are adroit at manipulating others’ impressions of them.”
― John Townsend, Beyond Boundaries: Learning to Trust Again in Relationships

“Then I referred him to Solomon: “The purposes of a person’s heart are deep waters, but one who has insight draws them out” (Proverbs 20:5).”
― John Townsend, Beyond Boundaries: Learning to Trust Again in Relationships

“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it” (Proverbs 4:23).”
― John Townsend, Beyond Boundaries: Learning to Trust Again in Relationships