Michael Todd > Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Optimism throws hope against a wall to see what sticks, but faith assigns it to Jesus.”
― Michael Todd, Crazy Faith: It's Only Crazy Until It Happens

“The grass withers and the flowers fade, but the word of our God stands forever. (Isaiah 40:8)”
― Michael Todd, Crazy Faith: It's Only Crazy Until It Happens

“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

“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

“but before we start building anything, we need to establish some things on a ground level. Even the most glorious building can be reduced to a pile of rubble without a sure and solid foundation.”
― Michael Todd, Crazy Faith: It's Only Crazy Until It Happens

“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

“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

“The truth is, you can’t build a skyscraper-sized vision on fixer-upper faith, and you won’t experience mansion-sized miracles with porta-potty principles.”
― Michael Todd, Crazy Faith: It's Only Crazy Until It Happens

“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

“the wealthiest place on earth…is the cemetery.”* It’s full of the most creative ideas, innovative inventions, cures for diseases, and life-giving solutions that never came to fruition because they left this earth buried inside people who were too lazy to embrace the process and become who God called them to be.”
― Michael Todd, Crazy Faith: It's Only Crazy Until It Happens

“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

“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

“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

“One whole man plus one whole woman plus God in their midst creates one healthy marriage.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex

“What does all this sexual activity produce? Along with some brief pleasure, it brings devastation. Broken hearts. Divorce. Single-parent homes. Disease. Abuse. Inability to trust. Anxiety. Self-loathing. Isolation. Numbness. Coldness to God.”
― 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

“It’s bad enough in a dating relationship to be unequally yoked; it’s worse in marriage. So, if you’re single, don’t even get started on that road. Somebody wants to date you who doesn’t care about God like you do? Then remember that sometimes being intentional in dating means not even starting up together.”
― Michael Todd, Relationship Goals: How to Win at Dating, Marriage, and Sex