Browse 105 quotes about Singleness.
“Why couldn’t she just trust God with her future, her present, and her dreams? She sighed and tucked her Bible in her bag. She knew the reason why; it wasn’t pleasant. She didn’t feel like God cared as much as she did about her future. He might be happy with her being single forever, but she wasn’t. He might think it was for her good, but she never would.”
Source: Fanny's Hope Chest
“A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“If your relationship is draining your energy, making you lose yourself and taking your attention away from God, then you are not in a relationship but a cult. You are busy creating an idol (mini-God) for yourself.”
“Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“God doesn't give us everything we deeply desire. The truth is, He hears the cries of our hearts, and He does answer. But as God, He holds the right to answer His way. The more significant truth is that He goes beyond our desires.”
Source: Living Whole Without a Better Half: Biblical Truth for the Single Life
“I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as another came. Things are very convenient in this respect in Blue Castles.”
Source: The Blue Castle
“Like Eve, we ponder the lie, and given the space, it settles in. It begins its insidious mission, robbing us of God's richest gifts.”
Source: Living Whole Without a Better Half: Biblical Truth for the Single Life
“Single |sin•gle| (adjective) - Too fabulous to settle.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“The world always said to just be yourself, but it turned out when Evelyn was herself, no guys were at all interested, so she was left with games of make-believe, expressing enthusiasm for whatever the men wanted to do, be it rock climbing or going to a cheese-beer pairing or a Knicks game.”
Source: Everybody Rise
“Instead of the church’s lessons helping women to participate in loving, mutual relationships, they perpetuate singleness and unfulfilled partnerships because the men in our lives desire confident women who are able to play with the possibilities of sexual engagement.”
Source: Who Told You That You Were Naked?
“Singles are told to be content with where they are in life but also encouraged and pressured to move out of their current “situation” or “season.” Being told both of these can become a bit confusing.”
Source: Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness
“We can be content in who God is, but that doesn’t mean we will be content in our singleness.”
Source: Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness
“Let’s encourage singles to enjoy this season in other ways than simply telling them it’s a gift.
Because if we are being honest, marriage is a gift too and you can’t blame a girl for wanting it.”
Source: Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness
“God’s story for someone’s life may look different than the “typical” story you are used to hearing, but that does not diminish the beauty and gift from God. It does not mean someone has lived life wrong. It means God has something else in store.”
Source: Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness
“True fulfillment on this earth is the same fulfilment you’ll have in heaven—Jesus.”
Source: Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness
“Church, let’s shift the narrative from “marriage equals success” to “embracing where God has you equals success.”
Source: Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness
“The best things you can do for your single friends is to listen, validate them, and encourage them never to lower their standards if what they desire lines up with what God says is best.”
Source: Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness
“Desiring marriage does not automatically mean I am discontent in my life. As long as I desire Jesus more than marriage, I shouldn’t be made to feel
ashamed for desiring to be married one day.”
Source: Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness
“We often correlate the “bad or unwanted” feelings we have with what we believe to be the truth, but our feelings don’t always tell the full picture. If we are not careful, we will start to let these false narratives become our life
mottos. So what is the truth? God does care, and just because we are unable to see clearly why he chooses to love us a certain way in this
exact moment doesn’t mean he doesn’t care.”
Source: Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness
“What you allow yourself to think and feel becomes what you believe about yourself. Make sure everything you believe about yourself and the current journey God has you on aligns with what God says about you.”
Source: Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness
“When you guard your heart and fill it with godly influences, there is no room for comparison, heartbreak, or deceit. No room for anything that tears down your spirit and joy for life, only room for God and who he says you are.”
Source: Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness
“I want a husband who loves Jesus and keeps him at the center of his life, someone who is not ashamed to live counterculturally and stand up for Christ. I want someone who has integrity, who is obedient to God, and who loves Jesus more than he loves me.”
Source: Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness
“God always shows up for people who seek him.”
Source: Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness
“You can search to the ends of the earth, but nothing will ever bring you long-lasting, pure, and fulfilling joy like God will.”
Source: Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness
“How apart she felt, how apart she had felt for years, and she wished it was a feeling she could get used to. But it wasn’t. One by one, everyone else her age had married and had children, yet for her, the years of her twenties had slipped away, waving at her like hands from a leaving train. As they all moved on, she was left standing on the platform, absolutely alone, surrounded only by the smoke that stung her eyes and throat.
It was no different now.”
Source: The Ocean's Daughter :
“I never feel alone realizing the fact that my life is my only life partner”
“The strange thing about adulthood, when you're single, is that it's possible to go for fairly extended periods without facing blatant sin against. Sure there was plenty of sin against God but with such infrequent consequence - it was easy to self-congratulate on how much our relationship owed to my 'righteousness,' generosity, and enlightened theological views. Though for the past twenty months or so I'd been hearing a pastor who's constant theme was grace, it didn't hit home until I faced this proof of what the Bible says God considers depravity.”
Source: Sexless in the City: A Memoir of Reluctant Chastity
“Love shouldn’t require Windex to be clear. It either is or it isn’t.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“You don’t need a significant other to lead a significant life.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“I had no problem being on my own. My grandfather had raised me to depend on myself. My problems came when I tried to fit myself into someone else’s life, especially when that meant giving up a part of myself in the process. So I waited until I didn’t have to. Until it felt like someone fit effortlessly. Or maybe that’s too easy - maybe it’s more accurate to say that what was required to be with Owen didn’t feel like effort. It felt like details.”
Source: The Last Thing He Told Me
“I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.”
Source: Good Wives
“Think long and hard whether you have reached that mature stage of selflessness for this one you think you love so much. The love you enjoy will be the best thing that ever happened to you, but it will cost you your independence.... The responsibility of marriage and family demands time, and when we cheat on that, we rob ourselves of the investment returns.”
Source: I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah
“…the feeling that even close friendships had become provisional. There are no guarantees since people can move at any point, or marry, or have some other commitment that supersedes their friendship with me. So, I reasoned, no matter how fond of me a good friend seemed to be they would drop me when work or family warranted it.”
Source: 7 Myths about Singleness
“The fact is, in all likelihood, singles need their married friends more than their married friends need them. That’s not to say that married friends don’t need their single friends at all, it’s just a different kind or different level of need. As a single person, my friends are a lifeline. They’re like family. They are the ones with whom I feel most known and loved…I need them. Hugely. But the fact is they don’t need me in the same way. Many of them are the equivalent of family, but since they have families of their own, the familial sense I have towards them is not necessarily reciprocated. That might be good and right as far as it goes, but it can also be painful at times.”
Source: 7 Myths about Singleness
“Fighting to hold on to what God said to let go of is an outright denial of His omniscience.”
“Happily Single is holding out for the best and letting go of the rest. It’s saying “I will and I can” to YOURSELF before you say “I do” to someone else.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“Nothing, in my opinion, sets the odious selfishness of mankind in such a repulsively vivid light, as the treatment, in all classes of society, which the Single people receive at the hands of the Married people. When you have once shown yourself too considerate and self-denying to add a family of your own to an already overcrowded population, you are vindictively marked out by your married friends, who have no similar consideration and no similar self-denial, as the recipient of half their conjugal troubles, and the born friend of all their children. Husbands and wives talk about the cares of matrimony; and bachelors and spinsters bear them.”
Source: The woman in white
“Marriage brings face to face two people committed to God whose face is distinctively revealed in each as they see each other in the light of God, shining on each countenance. God brought them close to each other because each was the other's answer from God, to rescue them from being alone.”
Source: I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah
“Single moms: You are a doctor, a teacher, a nurse, a maid, a cook, a referee, a heroine, a provider, a defender, a protector, a true Superwoman. Wear your cape proudly.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“It takes guts and bravery and heart to walk a mile in a single girl’s shoes. And sometimes a fabulous pedicure.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“Sex swims in marriage, while sex sinks in sin of being single.”
“There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“There’s something really cool about knowing that your destiny is SO big that you’re not meant to share it with anyone. At least not yet.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“Single" means you are brave enough to face the glorious unknown of the unaccompanied journey.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“But if as you read this book you're saying to yourself: "I'd rather be miserably married than be alone." Well young lady, take out your clown shoes and buckle your seat belt - it's going to be a very bumpy one-woman circus.”
Source: Impossible Is Stupid
“Don't ignore the love you DO have in your life by focusing on the love you DON'T.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“Single is no longer a lack of options – but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your life be defined by your relationship status but to live every day Happily and let your Ever After work itself out.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“Single” is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“Plum's own romantic history so far had been pretty limited, with minimal drama. It was one area where she felt comfortable lagging behind her peers. But she prided herself on her powerful philosophical insights into other people's relationships.”
Source: The Magician's Land