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“Love is not a feeling; it’s a decision. It’s not something you experience; it’s something you choose to do. It’s not an emotion; it’s an ability. It’s not something that happens to you; it’s something you nurture and orchestrate and develop.”
― Jimmy Evans, The Right One: How to Successfully Date and Marry the Right Person

“Love is a deliberate and determined act of the will. There is nothing idle or passive about it. It doesn’t wane or fail when life gets tough; it only grows stronger and more resolved. It’s the bond that keeps your relationship from drifting when every storm in the ocean is raging to tear you apart. It’s the one thing you can depend on when all of life seems bent on getting you down.”
― Jimmy Evans, The Right One: How to Successfully Date and Marry the Right Person

“Parents need to be on the same page spiritually in order to pass on those values to their children.”
― Jimmy Evans, The Right One: How to Successfully Date and Marry the Right Person

“EMOTIONALLY UNHEALTHY PEOPLE ARE LIKE HEAT-SEEKING MISSILES. THEY HAVE A WAY OF FINDING EACH OTHER.”
― Jimmy Evans, The Right One: How to Successfully Date and Marry the Right Person

“God’s love is steady and relentless. It is unchanging and unconditional. It is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. God’s love is agape love, the kind of love that says, “I’m going to stay true to you until the end of time, no matter what you do, no matter how I feel, no matter how strained our relationship becomes. I will never leave you nor forsake you. You are mine, and I am yours, and our relationship is an eternal one.”
― Jimmy Evans, The Right One: How to Successfully Date and Marry the Right Person

“It is through giving that we begin to receive. It’s through self-denial that we find the gratification we need.”
― Jimmy Evans, The Right One: How to Successfully Date and Marry the Right Person

“For marriage to last, it has to be built on a much greater purpose than the happiness and well-being of two single people. And that purpose has to be greater than any amount of stress and struggle that comes into the marriage.”
― Jimmy Evans, The Right One: How to Successfully Date and Marry the Right Person

“Through the power of the Holy Spirit, we all have the ability to operate in God’s love—in agape love. He promises to fill us with his Spirit if we ask. And when God’s Spirit fills us, his love flows through us.”
― Jimmy Evans, The Right One: How to Successfully Date and Marry the Right Person

“But God’s love is steady and relentless. It is unchanging and unconditional. It is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. God’s love is agape love, the kind of love that says, “I’m going to stay true to you until the end of time, no matter what you do, no matter how I feel, no matter how strained our relationship becomes. I will never leave you nor forsake you. You are mine, and I am yours, and our relationship is an eternal one.”
― Jimmy Evans, The Right One: How to Successfully Date and Marry the Right Person

“People always believe that they are able to be objective, especially when it comes to relationships, yet very few are truly capable of”
― Jimmy Evans, The Right One: How to Successfully Date and Marry the Right Person

“Our love is fleeting and fickle. It is based more on emotion than determination. It is almost always conditional and undependable, and can change as often as the tides.”
― Jimmy Evans, The Right One: How to Successfully Date and Marry the Right Person

“There is a godly way to date, and that is what you want your relationship to look like if you are seeking God’s guidance and direction. God speaks when we are obedient. That’s”
― Jimmy Evans, The Right One: How to Successfully Date and Marry the Right Person

“Marriage Expectation Inventory.” It is basically a series of very simple but specific questions aimed at exploring each of their expectations in marriage, like how many children they would like to have, how their children should be raised, how they think money should be spent, who should control the finances, where they want to live, how decisions should be made, how often they would like to have sex, who should initiate sex, and who will be responsible for the daily chores of running the household. The questionnaire covers a number of different topics, many of which they may have never discussed as a couple.”
― Jimmy Evans, The Right One: How to Successfully Date and Marry the Right Person

“People always believe that they are able to be objective, especially when it comes to relationships, yet very few are truly capable of it.”
― Jimmy Evans, The Right One: How to Successfully Date and Marry the Right Person

“For marriage to work, couples need to share the same basic views and expectations, have similar value systems, and a compatible set of goals and desires for the future.”
― Jimmy Evans, The Right One: How to Successfully Date and Marry the Right Person

“Obedience to the roles in Ephesians chapter five completely neutralizes our sin natures and causes us to return to the blessed state of unity and intimacy that God originally designed for marriage.”
― Jimmy Evans, The Four Laws of Love: Guaranteed Success for Every Married Couple

“trustworthiness”
― Jimmy Evans, Blending Families

“The Devil makes easy prey of people who emotionally navigate their lives and marriages”
― Jimmy Evans, The Four Laws of Love: Guaranteed Success for Every Married Couple

“committed to finding a Bible-based church and being an active member in fellowship with other believers. And until Jesus comes, nothing is going to take me out. Then live by it. You will be successful as a follower of Jesus and ready for His return.”
― Jimmy Evans, Tipping Point: The End is Here

“It is what we all want in love and life. We are looking for someone to share the rest of our lives with who truly loves us and will be attentive to our needs and desires. And so, having won each other over in the early phases of our relationship, we head into marriage with all of our hopes and dreams intact.”
― Jimmy Evans, The Four Laws of Love: Guaranteed Success for Every Married Couple

“But in the end, God’s standard lasts for eternity, and He judges and separates. He is a just God. It doesn’t matter how much money you make, what you look like, how smart or talented you are, or what status you hold. If you know Jesus, live for Him, and treat others with love, you will have everything you need for success on earth—and in heaven. All things will be fully revealed and rewarded.”
― Jimmy Evans, I Changed My Mind: Journey Toward Spiritual Maturity

“Why would the Bible equate stubbornness with the sin of idolatry? Because it is the worship of our own opinion. Stubborn people are hard to deal with because they are filled with pride and can’t acknowledge any thinking that doesn’t align with their own.”
― Jimmy Evans, The Four Laws of Love: Guaranteed Success for Every Married Couple

“The only One who can predict the future with absolute certainty is the One who controls it”
― Jimmy Evans, Tipping Point: The End is Here

“Like the utensils that are too long to get food and return it to our own mouths—we got married because we couldn’t meet our own needs. We needed a partner to serve us and to fulfill us.”
― Jimmy Evans, The Four Laws of Love: Guaranteed Success for Every Married Couple

“We believe in the virgin birth of Jesus, in the deity of Christ, and salvation by grace alone through the blood of Jesus shed on the cross. We believe in the physical death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, for the atonement of sins. We believe in the inerrancy of Scripture, and in one God, manifested through the Holy Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.”
― Jimmy Evans, The Right One: How to Successfully Date and Marry the Right Person

“In marriage, for example, feelings of rejection can cause spouses to become hostile and aggressive toward one another.”
― Jimmy Evans, The Overcoming Life

“Don’t focus primarily on your spouse; focus on yourself. You cannot change his or her behavior, but you can change your own behavior with God’s help.”
― Jimmy Evans, The Four Laws of Love: Guaranteed Success for Every Married Couple

“As it applies to marriage, this first step means remembering the joyous details of your happy and giving actions at the beginning when the relationship was so exciting and fulfilling. Remember how you honored the other person and were so sensitive in your speech? Remember how you did little things to impress them? Remember how both of you thought of each other all day and anticipated and prepared for your times together?”
― Jimmy Evans, The Four Laws of Love: Guaranteed Success for Every Married Couple

“Everyone at heaven’s banquet table has utensils strapped to both of their hands too long to scoop food and return it to their own mouths. So, in heaven, every couple at the table joyfully serves each other. They simply tell each other what foods they desire to eat, and they are served. It is a beautiful picture of the pleasure and fulfillment that can occur when a servant spirit is present.”
― Jimmy Evans, The Four Laws of Love: Guaranteed Success for Every Married Couple

“Remember this: Even though it is natural for us as humans to respond in kind to how we are being treated—it is Christlike to respond with a spirit of grace and to treat people better than how they deserve. It is the secret to redeeming people and situations that are difficult and even destructive. Nowhere is this ethic more important than in our marriages.”
― Jimmy Evans, The Four Laws of Love: Guaranteed Success for Every Married Couple