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“1. Choose to love each other even in those moments when you struggle to like each other. Love is a commitment, not a feeling. 2. Always answer the phone when your husband/wife is calling and, when possible, try to keep your phone off when you’re together with your spouse. 3. Make time together a priority. Budget for a consistent date night. Time is the currency of relationships, so consistently invest time in your marriage. 4. Surround yourself with friends who will strengthen your marriage, and remove yourself from people who may tempt you to compromise your character. 5. Make laughter the soundtrack of your marriage. Share moments of joy, and even in the hard times find reasons to laugh.”
― Dave Willis, 7 Days to a Stronger Marriage: Grow closer to your wife than ever before

“Love is an unconditional commitment to selflessly serve, truthfully communicate, fearlessly protect, gracefully forgive, compassionately heal, and enduringly remain in relationship with and for the sake of another. The”
― Dave Willis, The Seven Laws of Love: Essential Principles for Building Stronger Relationships

“Remember that the measure of a man has nothing to do with your stature, your salary, or your success; it’s a matter of the heart. Being a man means taking responsibility. It means protecting the weak, defending the truth, providing for those under your care, selflessly serving and loving your wife, providing a genuine example for your children, and leaving every person and place a little better off than you found them. This is the duty of every man.”
― Dave Willis, The Seven Laws of Love: Essential Principles for Building Stronger Relationships

“Love, by its very nature, is a conscious choice to selflessly put the needs of someone else ahead of your own preferences or comforts. No relationship can survive unless it is rooted in rock-solid commitment.”
― Dave Willis, The Seven Laws of Love: Essential Principles for Building Stronger Relationships

“Always look for the best in people, and you’ll end up discovering the best in yourself along the way. People may let you down and break your heart, but refuse to become bitter or cynical. You can rarely control what happens to you, but you can always control how you choose to respond. Always respond with grace, faith, dignity, patience, and perseverance. Be the same person in both public and private. There’s no true success without true integrity. Real success means living in a way that the people who know you the best are the ones who love and respect you the”
― Dave Willis, The Seven Laws of Love: Essential Principles for Building Stronger Relationships

“WE CAN’T RECEIVE GOD’S GRACE WITHOUT BEING WILLING TO EXTEND GRACE TO OTHERS.”
― Dave Willis, The Seven Laws of Love: Essential Principles for Building Stronger Relationships

“Even in the little, everyday routines of life, be fully present in the moments together. Be willing to turn off the phones and screens and distractions and make time for each other. At the end of your life looking back, your faith and your family will be all that matters, so please don’t wait until then to make them your top priority. Your love will be the only part of your legacy that can last into eternity.”
― Dave Willis, The Seven Laws of Love: Essential Principles for Building Stronger Relationships

“If the grass looks greener on the other side, it doesn’t mean you need to move, it just means to you need to water your own grass!”
― Dave Willis, Marriage Minute: Quick & Simple Ways to Build a Divorce-Proof Relationship