Bonded with Ezra Quotes

“You will be Mrs. Ezra Carmichael until you leave this earth. I wouldn’t have it any other way,”
― Love Belvin, Bonded with Ezra

“Think about it! God is all-knowing but you're not His only child. You're not His end all and be all. Ezra, you're good, but you ain't all that, sweetie.”
― Love Belvin, Bonded with Ezra

“Getting caught going down on a man happens all the time. Being caught going down on your husband is bawse status.” She”
― Love Belvin, Bonded with Ezra

“Honey, I didn’t see a former bartender or a victim. I didn’t see a helpless ‘round-the-way-girl caught up in her circumstances. I saw a victorious lamb, who fought against all odds and beat them by not getting caught up in the legal or social services system as a dependent. I saw a fierce warrior who frustrated me with the spewing of a few words of rejection while making my dick hard delivering them. I saw no horror. Not an ounce of inferiority or fear.”
― Love Belvin, Bonded with Ezra

“marriage is a journey. You want eternity, not longevity.”
― Love Belvin, Bonded with Ezra

“It had been a constant journey of battles and wars with the beast that is Ezra, and I was sure there would be more. But with this new tool of prayer that seemed to work, I had some ammunition to keep fighting.”
― Love Belvin, Bonded with Ezra

“I had no room for a child. My lifestyle barely yielded to include a spouse. How could I spare the time for another little being? One that would be dependent on every weeping request? The unbelievable adjustments I would have to make to pursue this venture of parenting was overwhelming.”
― Love Belvin, Bonded with Ezra

“Religion is a way of life, but knowing God is a way of living beyond yourself. It’s a relationship with a living, supernatural being.”
― Love Belvin, Bonded with Ezra

“Religion is a way of life, but knowing God is a way of living beyond yourself.”
― Love Belvin, Bonded with Ezra

“didn’t have to be happy to serve: serving was what I was born to do. Just like a layman with employment, you show up to work no matter what you feel like if you want to get paid. Only in the Kingdom, God instructs us to “enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise.” It does not matter what my life circumstances were, God was still going to get the glory, and His people still needed shepherding.”
― Love Belvin, Bonded with Ezra

“Yes, Mary. I’m pregnant.”
― Love Belvin, Bonded with Ezra

“No matter how damaged or broken a mother is, her child will love her unconditionally. Because as children, we know no better. We only know the energy we get from the womb we were developed in. My eyes cast downward.”
― Love Belvin, Bonded with Ezra

“All marriages endure an adjustment period at some point. Even I struggled with having an unmade bed and disarrayed closet on most days. For neither circumstance did I feel my marriage was doomed.”
― Love Belvin, Bonded with Ezra

“There was power in covenant. She would come to her senses in due time.”
― Love Belvin, Bonded with Ezra

“Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Luke 12:”
― Love Belvin, Bonded with Ezra

“Your readers do.” His fingers yanked through his thick beard in a combing manner. His eyes were in the corner of the room. “My real ones, the ones that trust me to be the author and don’t try to co-write my stories know I wouldn’t have taken you on if you were not good at the core and redeemable.” He finally looked at me. “I can work with you.” “I just don’t like the way I’m being perceived.”
― Love Belvin, Bonded with Ezra

“Do you get where this is going? Ezra, your wife is in the same category as your cleaner’s guy, mechanic, your dentist, and me, a virtual stranger to you. Nothing or no one else is inside this box, not even your parents. Marriage doesn’t work this way. She needs to be in here with you. She’s your partner, not a tool sent for your one-sided pleasure.”
― Love Belvin, Bonded with Ezra

“He leaned down toward me, still standing, and I could smell his fragranced beard. “You clearly didn’t do a good job with Alexis.” I cocked my head to the side again. “Who said Lex was the broken one of the two?”
― Love Belvin, Bonded with Ezra

“can’t be completely satisfied in life if you objectify her. She was created to help you, to take on your big world with you. Now let’s say He did send her to you, do you think you’re maximizing on her by consigning her to one place in your life: your sandbox? Is her only value in your life to physically feed you, and not mentally stimulate you, or spiritually back you? Is that all God created this bright, tough, apparently well-rounded—if she’s been surviving in your contrasting world—loving, and nurturing woman for? Think about it! God is all-knowing, but you’re not His only child. You’re not His end all and be all. Ezra, you’re good, but you ain’t all that, sweetie.” Needless”
― Love Belvin, Bonded with Ezra

“Ezra, you relegate everything—including your wife—to a box, and the only two things inside of that box is you and God. You can’t have a flourishing marriage if your wife isn’t situated inside of that box and seated next to you and God. If God, in fact, gifted her to you—which is possible, biblically speaking—He didn’t do so for you to interface with her like an object that can be tossed outside a box like your job, your education, your ministry, your martial arts, and your relationship with those outside of your home. That’s a good practice to manage all those things, and not have them overtake you. But your wife is your equal. You”
― Love Belvin, Bonded with Ezra

“We’re going over to Praise Tabernacle in Queens this morning and I said, ‘Lord, how’re we gonna make it all the way to Harlem before RSfALC starts their first service?’ And you know what He said to me?” The church responded in a manner of encouraging her to continue. “He said, ‘Daughter don’t question me. Be obedient.”
― Love Belvin, Bonded with Ezra

“Now, I may not be the best example of a wife, but being a laboring mother ain’t all that optional when you truly love your child.”
― Love Belvin, Bonded with Ezra

“I apologized to God for my stubbornness, and confusing contentment with motivation needed to carry out His will. I didn’t have to be happy to serve: serving was what I was born to do. Just like a layman with employment, you show up to work no matter what you feel like if you want to get paid. Only”
― Love Belvin, Bonded with Ezra