Mark Driscoll Quotes

“When you are lying in bed angry with your backs turned towards each other, imagine Satan sleeping in the space between you.”
― Mark Driscoll, Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, & Life Together

“For the husband, the male prostate can only be accessed through the anus. It is called the "male G-spot" as it is reportedly a source of great pleasure when stroked by such things as a wife's finger.”
― Mark Driscoll, Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, & Life Together

“I'd go home to a wife whom I was not sexually enjoying.”
― Mark Driscoll, Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, & Life Together

“The questions today are different, and if people don't get answers from pastors and parents, they will find them in dark, depraved places.”
― Mark Driscoll, Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, & Life Together

“But birth control can also be compelled by sinful motivations. These can include putting lesser priorities like career above higher priorities like family or greedily wanting to make as much income as possible to the exclusion of everything else, and not incur the costs of child raising; being selfish and not wanting to have to care for a child; or immaturely not wanting to take on the responsibility that good parenting requires.”
― Mark Driscoll, Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, & Life Together

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# My pregnant wife came home with her previously long hair that I loved chopped off and replaced with a short, mommish haircut. She asked what I thought and could tell by my face. She had put a mom's need for convenience before being a wife. She wept.”
― Mark Driscoll, Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, & Life Together

“I felt God had conned me by telling me to marry Grace, and allowed Grace to rule over me since she was controlling our sex life. I loved Grace, but in the bedroom I did not enjoy her and wondered how many years I could white-knuckle fidelity.”
― Mark Driscoll, Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, & Life Together

“I came to the conclusion that the cure for a lot of my moodiness was having more frequent sex with my wife.”
― Mark Driscoll, Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, & Life Together

“As a pastor, I recognize that in theological terms, narcissists want to be the center of attention, like a god, and have people worship them by paying attention to them, buying the products they promote, and emulating their behavior.”
― Mark Driscoll, Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, & Life Together

“We want to state this carefully: a spouse who is evil, distant, cruel, unloving, or abusive should not use this information to demand more sex from his wife without first dealing with his sin.”
― Mark Driscoll, Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, & Life Together

“To make matters worse, seemingly every book I read by Christians on sex and marriage sounded unfair. Nearly every one said the husband had to work very hard to understand his wife, to relate to her.”
― Mark Driscoll, Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, & Life Together

“Back in high school, once she suspected that I was probably not a Christian, she did not break up with me as she should have.”
― Mark Driscoll, Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, & Life Together