Relationship Goals Quotes

“Singleness is the time for “I”: invest, imagine, and inspire. Invest in what you want to see grow in your life. Imagine what you could be tomorrow if you started today. And inspire others by using everything you have now to make a difference.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“Just don’t go looking for others to give you what only God can—your purpose. Look only to God for that. And trust Him to bring people into your life who can push you ahead and whom you can push ahead in His plans.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“If people who come into our lives are either a blessing or a curse, it’s up to us to decipher, Is this relationship going to push me toward what God has for me, or is it keeping me from what God has for me?”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“I always encourage people to pay attention to patterns, not potential. All of us have the potential to do better in our weak areas, but can we live with each other’s patterns?”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“if the man is the head, the woman is the neck that supports him. And you can’t do nothin’ without a neck.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“Marriage was never supposed to be just a husband and wife. God was always supposed to be a participant in the relationship. In fact, He’s supposed to be the focus of the relationship.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“Soul ties can be persistent, but they don’t have to be permanent.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“When we don’t wait on the Lord, we give the Enemy the chance to introduce us to counterfeits. Then we deal with the results of mistakes and have to get healed and delivered from something God never meant for us to experience.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“if you wouldn’t marry the person, don’t go out with him.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“Let’s just say it straight out—recreational dating doesn’t work. Even a committed long-term relationship, as the saying goes, often leaves people feeling like they lost out. Over and over again, I’ve seen it with dating couples: they sleep together, they eat together, they have a cell-phone plan together—basically it’s a fake marriage with everything but the covenant. But all that makes the relationship harder to get out of than it was to get into. The breakup, when it finally comes, is traumatic. Instead of finding a lifetime mate, they’ve lost so much.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“See, people are so often trying to get a person without first understanding their own purpose—or at least without taking it into account. But a close relationship is going to have a huge impact on how well you can fulfill your purpose.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“Many of us have experienced poisonous relationships in some way or other, and it may have negatively affected our desire to ever have human connection at all. Let me encourage you: don’t allow the pain from your past relationships to make you forfeit your future ones.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“You might have an emotional connection or an intellectual connection or just a strong physical connection, but without God that connection isn’t enough.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“it’s important to see how our relationship with God should come first and above all other relationships. It’s the relationship, our ultimate relationship, and all blessings flow out of that relationship. In fact, one of those blessings is that He enables us to do our other relationships at their highest possible level. When we put God first, He’ll bless the rest.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“I believe the beauty of life is being a part of something that is way bigger than yourself. It’s God’s plan.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“many of us are tapping in our own destinations for relationships, but they are not necessarily the goals that we should really be pursuing. We should follow a plan (directions) that will get us to the goal (destination) that we actually want to reach.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“know you well enough to do that. Truth is, biblical principles are unchanging, but we’re at different places and we can have a variety of relationship goals within the guardrails that God has set up. So, relax and remember… you don’t have to have your whole life figured out from the start. Your relationship goals can, and actually should, change over time. You aren’t doomed if you’ve made a mistake; every one of us has access to heavenly redemption. I should know.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“We live in a world that has more and more relationships and less and less love, more and more sex and less and less intimacy.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“I’ve noticed that one of the key issues that hinders people from reaching their relationship goals is the fact that they don’t know how to aim.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“The truth is, having a goal without aim is senseless, but having a goal without God is pointless.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“If your relationship with Him is number one, He’ll take you from wherever you are and move you on to where you need to go next. I know I’m not alone —ALAN WALKER, “Alone” Now I’m feeling how I should Never knew single could feel this good —JASON DERULO, “Ridin’ Solo”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“challenge you to take some time to really think about your individuality and your special calling in life as you’re praying and thinking about what you’re going to aim for in your relationships.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“The world’s idea about sex—do whatever seems fun for you as long as it doesn’t hurt anybody else and you can get away with it—is so common that it seems like it must be right. Sorry, it’s a counterfeit. But if you’re always buying knockoff Nikes, you get so accustomed to the cheap leather and the soles that fall out that when you see the real thing, it doesn’t look right.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“He wants you to have a best friend, even though the last one stabbed you in the back. He wants you to have pastors and mentors who create a safe place to grow and become. He wants you to be in a marriage that works and is marked by love, honor, respect, and fun. Granted, your past relationships might have been, well…the opposite of that. But God is a redeemer, so He can take whatever is broken and jacked up and work it for your good.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“Singleness is the time for "I": invest, imagine, and inspire. Invest in what you want to see grow in your life. Imagine what you could be tomorrow if you started today. And inspire others by using everything you have now to make a difference.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“According to the Word of God, there’s a prerequisite for loving your neighbor: you can love your neighbor only at the level that you love yourself.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“Arguments are going to happen, but the more you can do to prevent unnecessary arguments or to bring arguments to a productive conclusion, the less damage your fighting is going to do.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“As Michael said in the previous chapter, Satan’s plan is to divide and conquer, but God’s plan is to unite and conquer. You can get on God’s side by pursuing unity at every turn.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“When you don’t speak your expectation from the beginning, you are setting up yourself and your spouse to fail. Maybe you feel like your husband or wife already knows what you want—but really, your spouse might not. Then, if you don’t voice what you want, it robs the person of the opportunity to actually meet your expectation or your need.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“The Bible says that before you were formed in your mother’s womb, God knew you.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex