Good Quotes

“Therefore, there can be no godly masculinity where feminine virtue is not celebrated. Godly men love the glory of women, because her glory is his glory.”
― Joe Rigney, Good: The Joy of Christian Manhood and Womanhood

“Femininity goes much deeper than what we see in the mirror.”
― Trillia J. Newbell, Good: The Joy of Christian Manhood and Womanhood

“The prerequisite for being in authority is recognizing that one is always under authority.”
― Joe Rigney, Good: The Joy of Christian Manhood and Womanhood

“While the great prize in marriage is Christ-centered intimacy, the great prize in dating is Christ-centered clarity.”
― Marshall Segal, Good: The Joy of Christian Manhood and Womanhood

“Cheap intimacy feels real for the moment, but you get what you pay for.”
― Marshall Segal, Good: The Joy of Christian Manhood and Womanhood

“If it doesn't seem unpleasant, then it's not discipline. If it doesn't seem painful, then it's not discipline.”
― Andy Naselli, Good: The Joy of Christian Manhood and Womanhood

“When a man leads his wife, he is leading her to depend on Christ, not on himself.”
― Christina Fox, Good: The Joy of Christian Manhood and Womanhood

“It’s then that Jesus gives us more of himself, proving over and over that he is enough, that he is good, that there is more joy in him than in the grain and wine that abound (Psalm 4:7)—or in the kids who never make messes and the dinner that prepares itself and the schedules that operate seamlessly. He is better.”
― Gloria Furman, Good: The Joy of Christian Manhood and Womanhood

“Precisely in the most desperate moments, when having the masculine role feels most unfair, when we’re our most tired, running on fumes, and need to keep providing in all these aspects, this is when the provision of God tastes the sweetest.”
― David Mathis, Good: The Joy of Christian Manhood and Womanhood

“There are times to say less and times to say more.”
― David Mathis, Good: The Joy of Christian Manhood and Womanhood

“Christ is the ground of our masculinity. He took Adamic humanity into the grave with him, and emerged with a new way to be human, and a renewed way of being a man.”
― Joe Rigney, Good: The Joy of Christian Manhood and Womanhood

“Jesus is the man—the true and better man—who exemplifies and empowers us to walk in his steps as those who embrace our God-given design to be a man, and act like one.”
― Jonathan Parnell, Good: The Joy of Christian Manhood and Womanhood

“The call to manhood is not last week, or next year, but now. And we answer the call not once upon a time, or later down the road, but today, by God's grace.”
― Jonathan Parnell, Good: The Joy of Christian Manhood and Womanhood

“True manhood is man's response to God's calling for men to gladly assume sacrificial responsibility.”
― Jonathan Parnell, Good: The Joy of Christian Manhood and Womanhood

“Our chief need is not affirmation but transformation.”
― Owen Strachan, Good: The Joy of Christian Manhood and Womanhood

“Narcissistic Optimistic Deism tells us that whatever we want to do or be, that's great. God is the great cheerleader in the sky, and he's for us and whatever we naturally crave.”
― Owen Strachan, Good: The Joy of Christian Manhood and Womanhood

“He did not make us all the same. He loves diversity. He revels in it. He created a world that pulses with difference, that explodes with color, that includes roaring waterfalls and self-inflating lizards and rapt-at-attention meerkats. But mankind, man and woman, are the pinnacle of his creation.”
― Owen Strachan, Good: The Joy of Christian Manhood and Womanhood