Carl Whitaker famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When there are kids involved, there's no such thing as divorce.
-- Carl Whitaker

#Marriage #Kids #Divorce
I have a theory that theories are destructive.
-- Carl Whitaker

#Theory
Shame occurs when you haven't been able to get away with the 'who' you want people to think you are.
-- Carl Whitaker

#Thinking #People #Want
Every marriage is a battle between two families struggling to reproduce themselves.
-- Carl Whitaker

#Struggle #Two #Battle
If we can abandon our missionary zeal we have less chance of being eaten by cannibals.
-- Carl Whitaker

#Missionary #Chance #Abandon
As much as I would miss my wife if she were to die, I would miss what we are together even more. Our "we-ness," our "us-ness."
-- Carl Whitaker

#Marriage #Wife #Missing
There are no individuals in the world only fragments of families
-- Carl Whitaker

#World #Individual #Fragments
Once it's established that we are a team, I can demand of you and expect you to demand of me. Life without pain is an addiction and the fantasy of perpetual happiness is like the "delusion of fusion."
-- Carl Whitaker

#Pain #Team #Addiction

... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.
All other goods by Fortune's hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven.
If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.
As a kid, I always wanted to obviously win a Super Bowl. Now that I've got one, it's like, 'Now what?' Let's go get another one!
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.
For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support.
What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.
Repentance is being sorry enough to quit your sin. You will never know the forgiving mercy of God while you are still wedded to your sins. Repentance is the soul's divorce from sin, but it will always be joined to faithRepentance that is not joined to faith is a legalistic repentanceProfessed faith that is not joined to repentance is a spurious faith, for true faith is faith in Christ to save me not in but from my sin. Repentance and faith are inseparable, and 'unless you repent you will all likewise perish' (Luke 13:3).
The success that comes from my books is not something I feel very comfortable with. Past a certain point you have to accept the idea that the success is a lot to do with the timing and luck and that divorces you from it massively. There are aspects of it that I haven't got used to at all. But I've enjoyed some parts of it massively. It relates to the same reason I did a lot of backpacking Â— partly for the experience Â— it's something to tell my grandkids. It's a weird chain of events to have in your life.

Carl Whitaker famous quotes

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