Show me a husband who keeps his thoughts to himself, and I will show you a frustrated wife.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.

What is the biggest obstacle facing the family right now? It is over-commitment; time pressure. There is nothing that will destroy family life more insidiously than hectic schedules and busy lives, where spouses are too exhausted to communicate, too worn out to have sex, too fatigued to talk to the kids. That frantic lifestyle is just as destructive as one involving outbroken sin. If Satan can't make you sin, he'll make you busy, and that's just about the same thing.

Extreme independence is as destructive to a relationship as total dependence.

By learning to yield to the loving authority of his parents, a child learns to submit to other forms of authority which will confront him later in his life — his teachers, school principal, police, neighbors and employers.

You have to work to keep love alive; you have to protect it and maintain it, just like you would a delicate flower.

The footsteps a child follows are most likely to be the ones his parents thought they covered up.