Top 59 Quotes About Singleness
#1. Singleness and marriage are both evidences of God's grace that are to be experienced and sustained purely by the strength which God supplies.
Alistair Begg
#2. Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
John D. Rockefeller
#3. God's plan for you, whether you're married, single, or about to be married, unless He gives you the gift of singleness, is to be in a warm, loving marriage relationship, characterized by open communication, a lot of hard work, deep commitment, setting boundaries, and doing it God's way.
Chip Ingram
#4. Beyond ego, beyond personality, beyond awareness, he moved, Kuang moving with him, evading his attackers with an ancient dance, Hideo's dance, grace of the mind-body interface granted him, in that second, by the clarity and singleness of his wish to die.
William Gibson
#5. Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.
Wyndham Lewis
#6. Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.
Paul J. Meyer
#7. In order to succeed, this group will need a singleness of purpose, they will need a dedication, and they will have to convince all of their prospects of the willingness to sacrifice.
Vince Lombardi
#8. One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.
Elizabeth George
#9. This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time
you feel their singleness and precise location and the forlorn coincidence of you being there to see them.
Alice Munro
#10. I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.
Rachel Held Evans
#11. And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough one-ness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though Nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#12. A duel, whether regarded as a ceremony in the cult of honour, or even when reduced in its moral essence to a form of manly sport, demands a perfect singleness of intention, a homicidal austerity of mood. [The duel]
Joseph Conrad
#13. I am five, I will never understand
why we are stranded in our selves
but in this moment I know
my own story
is understanding our singleness
that I am destined to move my body and time
into the body-time
the story
of Others.
Sharon Doubiago
#14. Singleness, simplicity, is required of me. One treasure, a single eye, and a sole Master!
Jim Elliot
#15. But singleness need not be permanent. It merely means being content in our present situation while being open to marriage - and yet not consumed by the pursuit of marriage.
Christopher Yuan
#16. The tender sentiment of the 'one and only' has less to do with constancy of heart than with singleness of opportunity.
B.F. Skinner
#17. Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.
Richard Holloway
#18. When you love someone, you expect them to love you back the same way - with a singleness of heart.
Colleen Coble
#19. And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice of that untempted life presenting no disquieting problems, invested with an elementary moral beauty by the absolute straightforwardness of its appeal and by the singleness of its purpose.
Joseph Conrad
#20. Many divorced or widowed people do with their singleness what they should have done before they married for the first time: live alone, find their own rhythms, date a variety of people, go into therapy, develop new friends and interests, learn how to live with and care for themselves.
Harville Hendrix
#21. Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced ... the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose.
Grenville Kleiser
#22. Communion gives us warmth.
Singleness gives us light.
At immeasurable distance stands one single star at the zenith.
This star is the God and goal of humanity.
In this world one is Abraxas,
creater and destroyer of one's world.
C. G. Jung
#23. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#24. Like He did with Joshua, the Lord will meet your needs and cover your inadequacies with His power. There is no obstacle so big God can't help you overcome it. Not your finances. Not your schedule. Not your messy house. Not your unruly kids. Not your singleness.
Jennifer Maggio
#25. The very voices of the night, sounding like the moan of the tempest, may turn out to be the disguised yet tender voices of God, calling away from all earthly footsteps, to mount with greater singleness of eye and ardor of aim the alone ladder of safety and peace upward, onward, heavenward, homeward.
John Ross Macduff
#26. Create you own singleness, your own loneliness, and know that you know this is exactly what you are doing. And feel damn right about it.
Margaret Aranda
#27. The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.
A.B. Simpson
#28. If there are singles who find the waters of singleness dark and deep, who feel, 'I sink in deep waters; the billows go over my head; all his waves go over me,' this is my message to you concerning singleness: Be of good cheer, my brother, my sister; I feel the bottom, and it is good.
Margaret Clarkson
#29. The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, ... stubborn will.
Ferdinand Foch
#30. Singleness would be recognized as a vital stage of the journey to maturation, a time to learn about who we are, to learn responsibility and self-sufficiency, to identify our true desires, and to confront our inner strengths and demons.
Harville Hendrix
#31. If we incline our wills in true earnest singleness to God, then we go with Christ out of this world, out from the stars and elements, and enter into God; for in the will of reason we are children of the stars and elements, and the spirit of this world ruleth over us.
Jakob Bohme
#32. Singleness is a gift; marriage is a gift. We should not misuse the gifts we've been given.
Alistair Begg
#33. Your money, your singleness, marriage, talent
and time, they were loaned to you to show the world that Christ is
Divine
LeCrae
#34. For the most part, the church doesn't know what to do with singles, largely because the visible majority of church members have moved beyond singleness and lost touch with the needs, attitudes, and aspirations of single adults.
Lisa Anderson
#35. I spent years being angry with God because He never gave me the husband I wanted. All those years gone, wasted! I should have enjoyed each day as it came and recognized that if I remained single it was because God knew singleness was best for me.
Jill Stengl
#36. It is not eye-service that pleases the Lord, but singleness of heart.
Amber Schamel
#38. There's a particular kind of single woman whose relationship with her dog has a level of intensity and affection that may be both the cause and the result of her singleness. For a long time, I was that woman.
Meghan Daum
#39. I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.
D.H. Lawrence
#40. If you are married, then accept that. Accept the husband that God has given you. If you are single, accept your singleness and take it as if today was the last day of your life. Don't be looking constantly to the future.
Elisabeth Elliot
#41. Don't be fretting ... about me marrying. Marrying's a trouble and not marrying's a trouble and I sticks to the trouble I knows.
L.M. Montgomery
#42. Not everything in life has to be about finding "The One." Sometimes a girl just wants to have fun.
Mandy Hale
#43. Marriage brings face to face two people committed to God whose face is distinctively revealed in each as they see each other in the light of God, shining on each countenance. God brought them close to each other because each was the other's answer from God, to rescue them from being alone.
Ravi Zacharias
#44. I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as another came. Things are very convenient in this respect in Blue Castles.
L.M. Montgomery
#45. You are every thing, every being, every emotion, every event, every situation. You are unity. You are infinity. You are love/light, light/love. You are. This is the Law of One.
RA
#46. If your relationship is draining your energy, making you lose yourself and taking your attention away from God, then you are not in a relationship but a cult. You are busy creating an idol (mini-God) for yourself.
Kemi Sogunle
#47. I never feel alone realizing the fact that my life is my only life partner
Munia Khan
#48. She has to have four arms, four legs, four eyes, two hearts, and double the love. There is nothing "single" about a single mom.
Mandy Hale
#49. With a positive attitude, you can be anything you want to be.
Selena
#50. The world always said to just be yourself, but it turned out when Evelyn was herself, no guys were at all interested, so she was left with games of make-believe, expressing enthusiasm for whatever the men wanted to do, be it rock climbing or going to a cheese-beer pairing or a Knicks game.
Stephanie Clifford
#51. Single moms: You are a doctor, a teacher, a nurse, a maid, a cook, a referee, a heroine, a provider, a defender, a protector, a true Superwoman. Wear your cape proudly.
Mandy Hale
#52. Single Christians living in purity and community are billboards for the sufficiency of Jesus
Peter Hubbard
#53. But if as you read this book you're saying to yourself: "I'd rather be miserably married than be alone." Well young lady, take out your clown shoes and buckle your seat belt - it's going to be a very bumpy one-woman circus.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
#54. Not married until 33, Abraham Lincoln said, A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that cannot hurt me.
Shelby Foote
#55. I'm single because I was born that way.
Mae West
#57. Sex swims in marriage, while sex sinks in sin of being single.
Anthony Liccione
#58. I had struggled so hard and so long that I had simply exhausted myself, only to find that God had all the time in the world to wait for me to allow Him to free me.
Michelle McKinney Hammond
#59. Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
Timothy Keller
