A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.

The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.

While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.

Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us.

What keeps the marriage going is your commitment to your spouse's holiness.

She wondered which was worse—living your whole life staring at yourself or waiting your whole life for someone to stare back at you.

Reading is dreaming with eyes wide open

All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.

Love should mean, never having to ask, "Do You Love Me"?

. . . when a woman has a husbandAnd you've got none, Why should she take advice from you?Even if you can quote Balzac and ShakespeareAnd all them other highfalutin' Greeks.

A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.

And this is why Jesus came: to endure the holy wrath of God due us.

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

Music taught me how to always be patient and focused, and to train the little concentration in myself.

Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.