A leader must have a servant's heart. And if he has a servant's heart, he will act like a servant and react like a servant when he is treated like a servant.

Marriage is a total commitment and a total sharing of the total person with another person until death.

The plain, unvarnished truth is, that every one of us needs the accountability that comes from formal, regular, intimate relationships with other godly people.

It often happens that when couples get their relationship to God straightened out, their relationships with one another begin to straighten out as well.

If...we do not think that a local church is worthy of joining, why should we be considered worthy of serving in it?

Wherever you find marital failure, you will find a breakdown in real communication. Wherever you find marital success, you will find a good communication system.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

I believe in the story [ of Adam and Eve]. For me, it's a story.

Love gives without taking

It's not enough to be right because he [Rick Perry] is right, you got to be persuasively right, got to be intellectually agile, and I think he can do it.

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

Very soon he will vanish completely in the wings of his own wordless stanza. [ ] but his stanza is not completely empty [ * ]

The thing I have to keep in mind and I try to keep in mind about myself, about anyone, is you do the best you can do at the time.

Willpower is a muscle that can be strengthened.

So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.