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.
We are free to fight sin, and free to win; but we must still fight.
If you need something in addition to God to make you happy, that is your true King.
Prayer turns theology into experience.
Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.
What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.