No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.

Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it means decent, seemly. The opposite of modesty is conceit, boldness, immodesty, brazenness, lewdness.

A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.

What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.

This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in prayer, and to learn long-suffering, gentleness, meekness - in short, to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on all of us.

What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.

Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.