Spiritual Wife Quotes

#1. This doctrine of polygamy, or spiritual wife-system, that has been taught and practiced among us, will prove our destruction and overthrow.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#2. To conceal an action is deceit. Even the husband is not aware of the deceit [by wife]. Lying is also deceit.

Dada Bhagwan

#3. I have been asked the question, Who do you go to for counsel, for spiritual guidance?' My answer: My wife, Ruth. She is the only one I completely confide in.

Billy Graham

#4. I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no.

Josh Gad

#5. I' and 'my' are two separate tracks. They never unite. One may say, 'this is my wife, we both are one [united]'. But we can't say they are 'one', can we? Both the 'I' are indeed separate, aren't they?

Dada Bhagwan

#6. A wife and a husband! For infinite lifetimes this is all one has done. And in doing so, one has lost his Absolute Supreme Self [Parmatma]!

Dada Bhagwan

#7. Buddha's Wife tells a fascinating story, little known in the west, about the woman whom Buddha left behind. Gabriel Constans focuses the reader's attention on the strong and complicated women who surrounded Buddha and makes us re-think the nature of spiritual life.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#8. [Ruth's] disposition is the same all the time - very sweet and very gracious and very charming. When it comes to spiritual things, my wife has had the greatest influence on my ministry.

Billy Graham

#9. Do not keep control over household affairs. The one who keeps control has to wander around. The unusable money [torn notes, ruined coins] are offered as homage in prayer rituals! 'Live' as a 'friend' with the 'wife'. You are her 'friend' and she is your 'friend'.

Dada Bhagwan

#10. There may be a hundred reasons that a husband is not fulfilling his role as the head of the home. But a wife who rebels against her head is only introducing a new element of spiritual sickness and dysfunction into the family.

Tony Evans

#11. The author charted the importance of human examples on his spiritual journey, confessing that when harsh and domineering people based their bullying on Christ's authority, he rebelled. But when his wife represented the gracefulness of Christ's character, he was drawn back to know Christ more fully.

Don Wilton

#12. God says that, 'Either you tell me that you want only God, or you tell me that you want this worldly life; then I will give it to you.' Do these people really want God? They actually want a house, they want wife and children.

Dada Bhagwan

#13. In the heir's world, where everything was available, the unattainable had a wild allure.

Geraldine Brooks

#14. Start where you are-do anything you can do, and do everything you can do, until you find something you must do! That something is probably your spiritual gift.

Jim George

#15. God desires that we develop spiritual muscle so we are strong enough to be His kind of wife.

Elizabeth George

#16. When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.

Jerry Falwell

#17. Similarly, loving spouses must repeatedly confront each other if the marriage relationship is to serve the function of promoting the spiritual growth of the partners. No marriage can be judged truly successful unless husband and wife are each other's best critics.

M. Scott Peck

#18. I've been fighting to be who I am all my life. What's the point of being who I am, if I can't have the person who was worth all the fighting for?

Stephanie Lennox

#19. A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met.

David A. Bednar

#20. The fact is that most husbands, regardless of religion - it's an old-fashioned gender divide where the husband wants to stay home and the wife is the one who drags herself and her children to whatever spiritual center they're going to.

Dani Shapiro

#21. That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up and so should relatives who are without affection.

Chanakya

#22. Problem does not lie in being a husband; the problem is with acting as a husband (being bossy).

Dada Bhagwan

#23. Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.

G.K. Chesterton

#24. The dreams of a pure life,
The dreams of a loving wife,
Find pleasure in a Godly life.

The Wife S.R.

#25. As God commands us men to teach your wife, to teach your children - to be the spiritual leader of your family - you're acting as a priest. Now, unfortunately, unfortunately, in too many Christian homes, the role of the priest is assumed by the wife.

Rafael Cruz

#26. A woman who wants to be the head of her home invites the Devil to take over her family. And the Devil has taken over many homes because the wife has refused to submit to the legitimate, biblical authority of her husband. The result is spiritual sickness and dysfunction.

Tony Evans

#27. A person like me who has grown up in a mixed culture ought to be spiritual. My mother is a Catholic, my father is a Muslim, and my wife is a Hindu. Personally, I feel spirituality is about being clear-hearted. It involves a sense of connection with the divine.

Emraan Hashmi

#28. Has she," asked the Doctor, with a smile, "has she been associating of late with a circle of pseudo-intellectual women - super-spiritual superior beings? My wife has been telling me about them.

Kate Chopin

#29. Love ranges from just fascination to something almost spiritual. In the case with my wife Barbara it just keeps growing all the time.

Roy Orbison

#30. Your ultimate goal for marriage is that both of you - as husband and wife - commit to keep growing spiritually.

Elizabeth George

#31. One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make.

Max Lucado

#32. They try to say what you are, spiritual or sexual? They wonder about Solomon and all his wives. In the body of the world, they say, there is a soul and you are that. But we have ways within each other that will never be said by anyone.

Rumi

#33. Man has obeyed commands of the Mother, the Father, the Guru; but he has not obeyed the commands of 'God' (Bhagwan). Had he obeyed 'God's' commands, his work (for liberation) would have been accomplished. Alas! He will follow his boss's commands and even his wife's commands!

Dada Bhagwan

#34. The man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.

Anonymous

#35. God gives strength to the weak.
God grace is the power for godly living.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#36. If you don't have a base - you can't not have a spiritual base and survive. That's probably what has kept me out of the tabloids. Then I go home, I've got a family, and I keep my wife in front of my head.

Steve Harvey

#37. Marriage is the beginning of love for your spouse, not the result of it.

Shannon L. Alder

#38. Within the overall context of loving his wife, a husband's first and primary role is to be the spiritual head and covering and teacher in the home. Through his words, lifestyle, and personal behavior the husband should teach the Word, the will, and

Myles Munroe