Genuine trust involves allowing another to matter and have an impact in our lives. For that reason, many who hate and do battle with God trust Him more deeply than those whose complacent faith permits an abstract and motionless stance before Him. Those who trust God most are those whose faith permits them to risk wrestling with Him over the deepest questions of life. Good hearts are captured in a divine wrestling match; fearful, doubting hearts stay clear of the mat.

Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective.

The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.

Love cannot last without a foundation of forgiveness.

Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.

Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another’s glory or toward degrading each other.

Reconciliation is not to be withheld when repentance—that is, deep, heart‐changing acknowledgement of sin and a radical redirection of life—takes place in the one being rebuked. Nor is reconciliation to be extended to someone who has not repented.