...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in the certainties of its pessimism. But we have seen again and again, from our own experience and others', that absolute statements of hopelessness that we make in the dark are notoriously unreliable. Our dark certainties are not sureties.

The wonder of marriage is woven into the wonder of the gospel of the cross of Christ, and the message of the cross is foolishness to the natural man, and so the meaning of marriage is foolishness to the natural man.

The Meaning of Mature Femininity: At the heart of mature felinity is a freeing disposition to affirm, receive, and nurture strength and leadership from worthy men in ways appropriate to a woman's differing relationships.

God doesn’t waste anything for those who are yielded to him.

Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.

O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.