Closer Quotes

“lasting joy is not a matter of what’s happening around you, but inside you.”
― Jim Burns, Closer: Devotions to Draw Couples Together

“No marriage is offense free. Two sinful people living together have lots of opportunity for heartfelt apology.”
― Jim Burns, Closer: Devotions to Draw Couples Together

“A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.”
― Jim Burns, Closer: Devotions to Draw Couples Together

“Changing directions in life is not tragic. Losing passion in life is.”
― Jim Burns, Closer: Devotions to Draw Couples Together

“Try not to become a person of success, but rather a person of value.”
― Jim Burns, Closer: Devotions to Draw Couples Together

“There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.”
― Jim Burns, Closer: Devotions to Draw Couples Together

“DO YOUR KIDS A FAVOR: LOVE YOUR SPOUSE”
― Jim Burns, Closer: Devotions to Draw Couples Together

“Love is a feeling; romance is love in action.”*”
― Jim Burns, Closer: Devotions to Draw Couples Together

“prayer “is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.”
― Jim Burns, Closer: Devotions to Draw Couples Together

“We want to issue a challenge to you: Pray together for your marriage each day for sixty days. If sixty days seems too long, commit to thirty.”
― Jim Burns, Closer: Devotions to Draw Couples Together

“Dr. Dave Stoop tells us that one-tenth of one percent of couples who pray together daily will get a divorce. That incredible statistic underlies what Norman Vincent Peale, the well-known pastor from New York City, used to say: “I have never met a couple who prayed together who didn’t stay together.”
― Jim Burns, Closer: Devotions to Draw Couples Together

“The right kind of marriage is not one of two hearts and two minds and even two souls; it is a marriage of three, with God being placed on the throne of your marriage.”
― Jim Burns, Closer: Devotions to Draw Couples Together

“God never promised to take away our problems, but He did promise to meet our deepest needs, often through our weakness.”
― Jim Burns, Closer: Devotions to Draw Couples Together