Pulling Back the Shades Quotes

“People sometimes say that it is “old-fashioned” to define morality based on the Bible, but nothing is more “old- fashioned” than wanting to define right and wrong for ourselves.”
― Dannah K. Gresh, Pulling Back the Shades: Erotica, Intimacy, and the Longings of a Woman's Heart

“God's design for a wife to submit is not to take away her power but to channel it in a way that builds a courageous lover and leader in her husband. God's plan works!”
― Dr Juli Slattery, Pulling Back the Shades: Erotica, Intimacy, and the Longings of a Woman's Heart

“Women have incredible power in marriage: the power to destroy their husbands or the power to build them up.”
― Juli Slattery, Pulling Back the Shades: Erotica, Intimacy, and the Longings of a Woman's Heart

“Whether you are addicted to crack cocaine or addicted to the love of of a fantasy man makes no difference. They both keep you enslaved to something that has replaced God.”
― Dr Juli Slattery, Pulling Back the Shades: Erotica, Intimacy, and the Longings of a Woman's Heart

“My whole ministry is devoted to helping women restore their marriages and grow in love. But a good thing that becomes the primary thing immediately becomes an immoral thing. Love, sex, and marriage are prime candidates.”
― Juli Slattery, Pulling Back the Shades: Erotica, Intimacy, and the Longings of a Woman's Heart

“Today, we are too sophisticated to invent names for what we worship, yet we continue to worship love.”
― Juli Slattery, Pulling Back the Shades: Erotica, Intimacy, and the Longings of a Woman's Heart

“The end result of living in fantasy is disillusionment, dissatisfaction, and ungratefulness in reality.”
― Juli Slattery, Pulling Back the Shades: Erotica, Intimacy, and the Longings of a Woman's Heart

“All of us have a deep, imbedded desire to make a profound difference in the life of a man. The desire to help the man you love is a worthy aspiration. In fact, it’s biblical. God created you to be a completer or “helper” for the man you marry.”
― Juli Slattery, Pulling Back the Shades: Erotica, Intimacy, and the Longings of a Woman's Heart

“I simply loved feeling wanted and fought for. This desire is set deep in the heart of every little girl—and every woman. Yet most of us are ashamed of it. We downplay it.”
― Juli Slattery, Pulling Back the Shades: Erotica, Intimacy, and the Longings of a Woman's Heart

“heart was designed for adventure, intrigue, romance, and suspense.”
― Juli Slattery, Pulling Back the Shades: Erotica, Intimacy, and the Longings of a Woman's Heart