Quotes by Gary Chapman

“Because of the way we run the school and the wavers we have through the charter school process, we can give them credit, they can catch up and graduate on time.”

“They have to have end of course testing just like at the traditional high school as well as pass the Georgia high school graduation test to get their diploma.”

“They receive credit not necessarily because of the number of days theyre here, but the mastery of their learning.”

“Many kids dont fit that mold of the high school setting and they need a lot of additional support or just a different way of learning.”

“The demographic of rugby is very much a target for our business because they have a high income. We have aspirations of being a global brand and rugby is a major contributor.”

“They start at the very beginning. The whole account of Adam and Eve is a very romantic picture. Im also thinking about Samson. Thats a really unique picture. He went down to this land and saw this lady and got what I call the tingles. In that culture the parents worked out the details. I think that the phenomenon in that initial attraction is seen throughout human history.”

“At the end of the game, we had it just where we wanted to. The play was executed perfectly and we got a good look at the end.”

“Were going to be patient on offense again and work it around. If we have the ball, they cant score. We just have to control the tempo.”

“It will be an uphill battle, but weve been fighting an uphill battle for the last three weeks. So far weve succeeded.”

“Our shooting wasnt there tonight. The first quarter turnovers hurt us, and Hobbs hot shooting got us too deep in the hole.”

Encouragement requires empathy and seeing the world from your spouses perspective. We must first learn what is important to our spouse. Only then can we give encouragement. With verbal encouragement, we are trying to communicate, I know. I care. I am with you. How can I help? We are trying to show that we believe in him and in his abilities. We are giving credit and praise.

People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.

Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself.

Love doesnt erase the past, but it makes the future different.

The best way to predict future is to create it. Abraham Lincoln

What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.

I would encourage you to make your own investigation of the one whom, as He died, prayed for those who killed Him: Father forgive them for they know not what they do. That is loves ultimate expression.

Discipline is not a negative word. It comes from the Greek word to train.

In the area of linguistics, there are major languagegroups: Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, English, Portuguese,Greek, German, French, and so on. Most of us grow uplearning the language of our parents and siblings, whichbecomes our primary or native tongue. Later, we may learnadditional languages but usually with much more effort.These become our secondary languages. We speak andunderstand best our native language. We feel mostcomfortable speaking that language. The more we use asecondary language, the more comfortable we becomeconversing in it. If we speak only our primary language andencounter someone else who speaks only his or herprimary language, which is different from ours, ourcommunication will be limited. We must rely on pointing,grunting, drawing pictures, or acting out our ideas. We cancommunicate, but it is awkward. Language differences arepart and parcel of human culture. If we are to communicateeffectively across cultural lines, we must learn the languageof those with whom we wish to communicate.In the area of love, it is similar. Your emotional lovelanguage and the language of your spouse may be asdifferent as Chinese from English. No matter how hard youtry to express love in English, if your spouse understandsonly Chinese, you will never understand how to love eachother. My friend on the plane was speaking the language of“Affirming Words” to his third wife when he said, “I told herhow beautiful she was. I told her I loved her. I told her howproud I was to be her husband.” He was speaking love, andhe was sincere, but she did not understand his language.Perhaps she was looking for love in his behavior and didn’tsee it. Being sincere is not enough. We must be willing tolearn our spouse’s primary love language if we are to beeffective communicators of love.

Often we fail to consider the fact that our social, spiritual, and intellectual interests are miles apart. Our value systems and goals are contradictory, but we are in love.