In Covenant with Ezra Quotes

“I’m a man,” he returned with harsher resolve. “Once we get past the title, the frill of my extensive travel and education, the calling on my life that I can’t control, and my family’s socioeconomic status, we can appreciate that I am a hot-blooded man who fights with rigor not to kiss you the way that I want, who struggles against beating his meat every day when I think about your glorious and sinful body while I’m alone, and the man who wants a woman in his bed to defile in each and every way as he chooses. Pastoral image aside, I am a man with carnal need, just one who wants to follow the rules and wait until I’m married to release what I’ve been holding since the day I laid eyes on you.”
― Love Belvin, In Covenant with Ezra

“Haven’t you ever lent your mind to the possibility of stepping out of the world as you know it and into something new…unusual… that can elevate your mind to a place where you can experience a deeper meaning?”
― Love Belvin, In Covenant with Ezra

“You can either walk out of here on your own volition with dignity or you will be carried out,” thundered directly into my left ear. “You have 4.5 seconds before the decision will be made for you.”
― Love Belvin, In Covenant with Ezra

“When was the last time you exercised your faith and expected God to act on your behalf?”
― Love Belvin, In Covenant with Ezra

“I don’t see science as defying nature so much as it is exploring creation. God is omniscient, far beyond the capability of our wisdom and knowledge. He creates a few with the minds to discover His wonders.”
― Love Belvin, In Covenant with Ezra

“Haven’t you ever lent your mind to the possibility of stepping out of the world as you know it and into something new…unusual that can elevate your mind to a place where you can experience a deeper meaning? Your pleasure is clearer, your perception of joy is sharper, and those things that confuse you—hurt you—become void, almost nonexistent. You can step out of who you know Alexis to be, along with all of her stressors and tap into a new advent of yourself.  Don’t think about what should be or could be; create your own path to contentment.”
― Love Belvin, In Covenant with Ezra

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― Love Belvin, In Covenant with Ezra

“I turned over to do just that. The “In” track played in the backdrop of my head like a hushed lullaby for minutes long as my mind raced. Then, out of nowhere, I was struck with an onslaught of emotions I had no idea existed. I’d just had a vaginal orgasm. With a man. My husband. A man who was essentially a stranger, because I really didn’t know Ezra. A man that caused me to see and feel so much and so quickly. It was easy falling into a sexual affair with Ezra: he was handsome, compelling, and confident. What woman wouldn’t be taken by those qualities? But I was able to keep a modicum of a barricade of control because I had places within that no one could penetrate without my consent. My shoulders trembled as I tried to unsuccessfully stifle my sobs, because in that instance, I realized Ezra took that, too. It was one thing to impress me with his eloquent articulation and infinite knowledge, but an entirely different matter to infiltrate a deep, private, and vulnerable place within. I felt raw, emotionally. Felt exposed beyond what I could identify. My mother’s mental illness had always hovered over me with gloom. I was predisposed to the same, which is why I didn’t allow myself to feel so much. It’s why I hadn’t cried in years. That shit was for the weak. As my dad would chant, “Alexis is no weakling. She’s a fucking warrior!” It was true. It was what I believed and had to against having a genetic linking to a feeble brain like my mother’s. So, I fought for mental stability, alertness, and protection. Had I just given that to Ezra, a man I technically didn’t know, but was drawn to for some inexplicable reason? I couldn’t have that. My father taught me to always be tough, to fight any force no matter how big or strong. How could I fight what I couldn’t understand or identify? What weapons do you battle intimacy with? “Shhhhhh…” Ezra soothed while rocking me in his hard frame, his touch more gentle than any he ever applied with me. “That type of sensation, and for the first time, can take your mind to low places after having been so high.” How did he know I was battling emotionally, sinking deeper and deeper into self-pity? “Don’t let it take you under, Alexis. Just breathe it off.” Ezra patted my damp hair, with calmative care. “Breathe, baby,” he whispered. Taken by his comfort, I was already halfway into my slumber.”
― Love Belvin, In Covenant with Ezra

“Give me the courtesy of your eyes when you speak to me, Alexis,” he asserted firmly.”
― Love Belvin, In Covenant with Ezra

“That’s “In”…William McDowell,”
― Love Belvin, In Covenant with Ezra

“That was it: no formal goodbye to me or paternal inquisition for my new husband no one knew.”
― Love Belvin, In Covenant with Ezra

“why I’d been so adamant about finding a wife—waiting on God to send her to me. Unlike Paul, I wasn’t meant to minister as a single man.”
― Love Belvin, In Covenant with Ezra

“From Abraham to Peter, and so on and so forth, God has shown the flaws of man, biblically. You’re no different. God has never used a perfect man, except Jesus Christ, to edify His Kingdom. So tighten up your conduct. Things will work out.”
― Love Belvin, In Covenant with Ezra

“Sometimes we have to let things work themselves out after we’ve made a mess out of them to begin with. If there’s one thing God doesn’t like, it is mortal man attempting to do what only He can do. You have to wait this one out, son.”
― Love Belvin, In Covenant with Ezra

“Now that I’ve discovered your flavor, I’ll exercise even less patience.”
― Love Belvin, In Covenant with Ezra

“You would be wise to stop with your self-loathing right there. Your high risk behavior already has my wrist twitching.”
― Love Belvin, In Covenant with Ezra

“I took my time in the shower, washing my hair then found myself examining my body. That quickly I didn’t recognize it. I felt my body had betrayed me by withholding secrets of pleasure from me.”
― Love Belvin, In Covenant with Ezra

“particularly”
― Love Belvin, In Covenant with Ezra

“circulating”
― Love Belvin, In Covenant with Ezra