Messy Beautiful Love Quotes

“I’m forever learning that prayer has everything to do with the Lord and nothing to do with my righteousness. Righteousness is imputed to us by faith. We merely need to seek Him with a pure heart.”
― Darlene Schacht, Messy Beautiful Love: Hope and Redemption for Real-Life Marriages

“I can’t promise you that this will be easy, but I can say that marriage—the way that God intended it to be—is a treasure worth fighting for.”
― Darlene Schacht, Messy Beautiful Love: Hope and Redemption for Real-Life Marriages

“THE CHALLENGE Pay attention to the good qualities in your husband. What makes him different? What do you love about him? Take note of the good things he does and the kind things he says. Carefully notice the ways that he expresses his love, even if they seem insignificant at the time. Start building him up by reminding him how much you appreciate him and the many little things that you love about him.”
― Darlene Schacht, Messy Beautiful Love: Hope and Redemption for Real-Life Marriages

“Satan is wily, wise, and wicked. He seeks to destroy marriage because he knows that the marriage covenant is ordained by God.”
― Darlene Schacht, Messy Beautiful Love: Hope and Redemption for Real-Life Marriages

“Could this be a picture of me praying by the kitchen sink while I’m washing my dishes? It could be. And, yes, the Lord assures me that my eyes might be open as I take in the view from the backyard. I see the trees that my husband and I planted together, and I praise God for His gift of a husband. Could this be a picture of me praising the Lord as I snuggle in close to my husband”
― Darlene Schacht, Messy Beautiful Love: Hope and Redemption for Real-Life Marriages

“I’ve knelt through prayer meetings thinking about everything but prayer, and then I remind myself that I’m supposed to be concentrating on the Lord. I shuffle my position and get official until my thoughts drift off once again. Praise God for His unfailing grace on this cracked vessel.”
― Darlene Schacht, Messy Beautiful Love: Hope and Redemption for Real-Life Marriages

“Going on and on about his faults wouldn’t serve any purpose, but that’s what I did. I took count of his faults and kept track of each one. I had forgotten what 1 Corinthians says about love: “It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs” (13:5 NIV). Record keeping damages our hearts and feeds the root of bitterness within us, while love heals”
― Darlene Schacht, Messy Beautiful Love: Hope and Redemption for Real-Life Marriages