Yes, it's vulnerable and scary to keep your love on toward someone who has become a perceived threat-you cannot guarantee what he or she is going to do. But you can guarantee your own choice. And you can always choose connection.

Discipline works from the inside out, and punishment tries to work from the outside in.

If we don't know how to deal with sin then we don't know how to deal with people.

Shame is removed through love.

Marriage isn't just a choice. It's choosing the same person a million times.

In being vulnerable, we reach for our greatest need while risking our greatest pain.

Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.