Jason Evert > Quotes

“Don't worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself.”
― Jason Evert

“When a woman veils her body in modest clothing, she is not hiding herself from men. On the contrary, she is revealing her dignity to them.”
― Jason Evert

“The right relationship won't distract you from God. It will bring you closer to Him.”
― Jason Evert

“You will not lift the veil of my body until you lift the veil over my face.”
― Jason Evert

“When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, and goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her.”
― Jason Evert, How to Find Your Soulmate without Losing Your Soul

“Authentic femininity is a combination of class, tenderness and virtue. When a woman possesses these traits, a man will naturally want to be more of a gentleman around her.”
― Jason Evert

“If you are currently in a relationship in which you are also willing to 'do anything to make him happy,' even at your own expense, I want you to stop reading our book. Mark this page, close the book, and hit yourself over the head with it. Then continue reading.”
― Jason Evert, How to Find Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul

“Girls...only lift the veil over your body to the spouse who is worthy to see the glory of that unveiled mystery.”
― Jason Evert

“The more ready you are to give yourselves to God and to others, the more you will discover the authentic meaning of life.”
― Jason Evert, Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves

“Only falsehood wraps itself in a flood of words. Truth is brief.”
― Jason Evert

“The essential reason for choosing a person must be personal, not merely sexual. Life will determine the value of a choice and the value and true magnitude of love. It is put to the test most severely when the sensual and emotional reactions themselves grow weaker, and sexual values as such lose their effect. Nothing then remains except the value of the person, and the inner truth about the love of those connected comes to light. If their love is a true gift of self, so that they belong to the other, it will not only survive but grow stronger, and sink deeper roots. Whereas if it was never more than a sort of synchronization of sensual and emotional experiences it will lose its raison d’être [reason for existence] and the persons involved in it will suddenly find themselves in a vacuum. We must never forget that only when love between human beings is put to the test can its true value be seen.”
― Jason Evert, Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves

“Because of my value, I veil myself... If I show too much, I wouldn’t be revealing my true worth to you. I’d be distracting you from what matters most.”
― Jason Evert, Theology of His Body / Theology of Her Body: Discovering the Strength and Mission of Masculinity/Discovering the Beauty and Mystery of Femininity

“A third type of potty mouth is the guy who is verbally abusive. In such relationships, the verbal attacks usually revolve around three themes: her body, her brains, or her previous sexual behavior. By attacking her intelligence, attractiveness, and lack of innocence, the abuser undermines his victim's self-esteem. This causes her to feel strangely bonded to him, as if no one else would desire her....
The reason a guy tears down the self-esteem of a woman is because his self-image is so low...It says nothing about you, your waistline, or your intelligence. It says everything about his own insecurity and interior wounds.”
― Jason Evert, How to Find Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul

“For starters, a guy cannot be considered a man unless he treats a woman with dignity.”
― Jason Evert, How to Find Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul

“Even as you seek a virtuous, fair, and good spouse,... it is fitting that you should be the same. —Saint Bernardino of Siena”
― Jason Evert, Purity 365: Daily Reflections on True Love

“As a biblical foundation, the scriptures state that the fervent prayer of a righteous person is very powerful (Jas 5:16), that everyone in heaven is righteous (Rev 21:27), that people in heaven pray for those on earth (Rev 5:8), that the mother of Jesus could be seen in heaven (Rev 12:1–5), and that her offspring were “those who keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus” (Rev 12:17). Furthermore, if Saint Paul could claim to be a spiritual father and declare that he was in labor pains for others until Christ be formed in them, how much more would this be true of Mary! None suffered with Christ more intimately than Mary, who was, in the words of John Paul, “crucified spiritually with her crucified son.”
― Jason Evert, Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves

“observations. Therefore, the entire archbishop’s residence, from the bedroom to the dining room, was bugged with listening devices. The communists were rather clumsy about it, pretending to show up as random technicians who needed to work on the phone lines or electrical system.”
― Jason Evert, Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves

“The woman is seen as the seductress, the occasion of sin. But in John Paul’s mind, lust is a problem of the heart, not the body. Blaming the body for lust is a loophole to avoid the true issue: our hearts.104 If every woman clothed herself from head to toe, lust would remain. Put differently, a thief does not become a philanthropist when jewels are locked away. The cause of theft is not the jewels in the window of the store but the greed in the heart of the robber.”
― Jason Evert, Theology of the Body In One Hour

“Every woman knows when something's not right in a relationship; there's a lack of peace. But she has only two options: Fix it or get out.”
― Jason Evert, How to Find Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul

“Why is he sweet?
Sometimes a guy will be sweet because he needs to make up for the times he's been bad.

I once heard it said that when a guy often acts disrespectfully to you, his bad behavior is not a piece of the puzzle. It solves the whole mystery. It tells you who he is. So don't get wrapped up in the bliss of his candy-coated personality when he's trying to make it up to you.”
― Jason Evert, How to Find Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul

“Just as a man is seduced through his eyes, women are often seduced through their ears. Some guys can be so smooth with their words that a woman will forget his actions.”
― Jason Evert, How to Find Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul

“The body itself is pure. It is very good, but often a person's intentions are not. Therefore, the problem with immodesty is not that it reveals too much, but that it obscures the value of the person. Modesty, then, is not about hiding one's body but about revealing one's worth. It is an invitation to contemplation. It conceals certain parts of the body not because they are bad, but in order to invite others to discover one's full value as a person, thus opening a way toward love.”
― Jason Evert, Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves

“The wife must love her husband as if there were no other man in the world, in much the same way as the husband should love her as if no other woman existed.”
― Jason Evert

“We ought to be moved to choose the good not simply through a cold and gritty decision driven by our intellect or our will, but also by our heart.”
― Jason Evert, Theology of the Body In One Hour

“The real question is: How many men have the maturity and courage to lead you closer to heaven? If he does not have that quality, then you have no business dating him.”
― Jason Evert, How to Find Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul

“G. K. Chesterton once said that the family is a cell of resistance to oppression. Unfortunately, this was one point of Catholic theology that the communists agreed with. To undermine Polish culture, communists struck at its heart—the family. Work and school schedules were organized so that parents had minimal contact with each other and with their children. Birth control and abortion were encouraged, state-sponsored sex education was implemented in schools, and apartments were built to accommodate only small families.”
― Jason Evert, Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves

“Prayer was the rhythm of the Holy Father’s life. He made time to pray before and after his meals, and interspersed his Breviary prayers (the Liturgy of the Hours) throughout the day and night, calling it: “very important, very important.” At six in the morning, at noon, and again at six in the evening, he would stop whatever he was doing to pray the Angelus, just as he had done while working in the chemical plant in Poland. He prayed several Rosaries each day, went to confession every week, and did not let a day pass without receiving Holy Communion. Each Friday (and every day in Lent), he prayed the Stations of the Cross, and preferred to do this in the garden on the roof of the Papal Apartments. During Lent, he would eat one complete meal a day, and always fasted on the eve of our Lady’s feast days. He remarked, “If the bishop doesn’t set an example by fasting, then who will?” The Holy Father knew that his first duty to the Church was his interior life. He declared, “the shepherd should walk at the head and lay down his life for his sheep. He should be the first when it comes to sacrifice and devotion.” Each night, he looked out his window to Saint Peter’s Square and to the whole world, and made the sign of the cross over it, blessing the world goodnight.”
― Jason Evert, Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves

“...the person who is working is always more important than the work the person is doing.”
― Jason Evert, Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves

“Women know in their hearts that sex should mean something.
You decide: Should love be temporary, or forever? Should it be coerced, or freely given? Is it uncommitted, or faithful? Is it lifeless, or life-giving? Is it hidden, or announced to the world? If you believe that romantic love should ultimately be a life-giving public declaration of freely given faithful love that lasts forever, then you've just described marriage vows.
Therefore the question is not: "Should a dating relationship require more than sex?" but rather, "Should sexual intimacy require more than a dating relationship?”
― Jason Evert, How to Find Your Soulmate Without Losing Your Soul

“Purity is not about seeing less of the body, but about seeing more of the person.”
― Jason Evert, Theology of the Body In One Hour