Wendy Griffith > Quotes

“You, my darling sister, are too valuable, too beautiful and too blessed to let any man throw up on you. If what’s coming out of a man’s mouth is not lifting you up, is not edifying and encouraging you, is not ultimately making you feel better but instead pulling you down and making you feel worse, then you are being thrown up on too.”
― Wendy Griffith, You Are a Prize to be Won: Don't Settle for Less Than God's Best

“My sister, God has a special word for you that will change your life. You are a royal daughter of the Most High King, a princess in the palace, a pearl of great price and beautiful beyond measure. Your greatest love, the man of your dreams and the father of your children, is out there waiting for you, because you, my sister, are a prize to be won!”
― Wendy Griffith, You Are a Prize to be Won: Don't Settle for Less Than God's Best

“Ah, but knowing our worth, knowing our true value—that’s not always easy. There are many reasons why we as women cannot properly gauge our worth. Whether we’ve been raised by parents or a parent who simply didn’t know how to nurture and raise an emotionally healthy child, whether we have allowed society, men or a man in our past (or present) to define who we are instead of what God says about us, or whether we have endured cheating, physical abuse or emotional abuse at the hands of a man we thought would always protect us, there are numerous reasons why women enter relationships with the wrong men. The bottom line is we begin to believe the lie that we’re really not worth that much, and we end up being attracted to men who can never truly love us the way we long and deserve to be loved. The Bible says, “As [a man or woman] thinketh in his [her] heart, so is he [she]” (Prov. 23:7, KJV).”
― Wendy Griffith, You Are a Prize to be Won: Don't Settle for Less Than God's Best

“Michael continued to email me after this, but I refused to answer his emails as they were all the same, ambiguous and double minded. I wanted a man who knew what he wanted—not someone who wanted to keep me around just in case.”
― Wendy Griffith, You Are a Prize to be Won: Don't Settle for Less Than God's Best

“Don’t settle. Don’t throw yourself away on a guy who is not worthy of you, because you are worth so much more than you realize.”
― Wendy Griffith, You Are a Prize to be Won: Don't Settle for Less Than God's Best