“God did not create woman from man’s head, that he should command her, nor from his feet, that she should be his slave, but rather from his side, that she should be near his heart.”

—  Myles Munroe

Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage

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Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister 1954–2014

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