Couples don't fall out of love so much as they fall out of repentance.

A good marriage isn't something you find; it's something you make.

We bring nothing to God, and He gives us everything.

Fear is intensified by passionate love. The more I care about someone, the more I'm concerned about their welfare. The less we have to lose, in one sense, the easier it is to be "brave."

A defeatist attitude kills almost as many marriages as do affairs.

Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately casts us into a countercultural pursuit.

Christian love must be chased after, aspired to, and practiced.

A Christian is never dependent on the response of others to grow spiritually. It's our own heart's decisions that matter

Done well, marital sexuality can be a supremely healing experience.

The older I get the more I realize that a significant portion of a parent's happiness or sadness in middle-age will be directly impacted by how closely our children are walking with the Lord.

Having children made me confront my true fears and trust in God many times over in a much more intensified manner.

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

Only a clear, focused, and common mission can hold the organization together and enable it to produce results.

There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.

Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.

To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success

I get pressure from my audience and my agents to be a 'good girl,' and I'm in the public eye, so if I mess up, it's going to be all over the place.

People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries.

Financially, it was very successful. Which is the most important thing. That is the only way you get to make another movie. It's very simple. The market will value you.

The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.