Quotes by Gary Chapman

“Encouragement requires empathy and seeing the world from your spouse's perspective. We must first learn what is important to our spouse. Only then can we give encouragement. With verbal encourageme...”

“People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.”

“What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.”

“I would encourage you to make your own investigation of the one whom, as He died, prayed for those who killed Him: 'Father forgive them for they know not what they do.' That is love's ultimate expr...”

“In the area of linguistics, there are major languagegroups: Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, English, Portuguese,Greek, German, French, and so on. Most of us grow uplearning the language of our parents ...”

“The best way to predict future is to create it." Abraham Lincoln”

“Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself.”

“Love doesn't erase the past, but it makes the future different.”

“Discipline is not a negative word. It comes from the Greek word "to train.”

“Often we fail to consider the fact that our social, spiritual, and intellectual interests are miles apart. Our value systems and goals are contradictory, but we are in love.”

“A gentle answer turns away wrath.”

“You are the gatekeeper of your childs mental diet.”

“When you take your place as the authority figure in your home, your child will feel more safe in the real world, not the screen world.”

“People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relati...”

“I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.”

“I think the tingles are important. They are real, and I am in favor of their survival. But they are not the basis for a satisfactory marriage. I am not suggesting that on should marry without the t...”

“The author stipulates that while television lately background noise for a child, it tends to shift to the foreground for the adult. The adult pays enough attention to the media attention is paid to...”

“You are the gatekeeper of your child’s mental diet.”