Love is one factor - but not the only on - that God uses to promote the permanence of the marriage bond.

Protection of human life can be costly; but so is the neglect of that protection.

The person who believes he must earn the right to go through the door of eternal life will miss the mark.

Truth can be attested by the supernatural, but so can falsehood.

The spiritual heritage of the godly lives on after they are gone.

The heart that delights in God and longs only to see His glory advance will seldom be conscious of sacrifice. God in His wisdom asks that we first love Him and then live in keeping with that core value. He does not want His people to think of what they do as sacrificial, even though from the world's point of view it may be just that. Gratitude for grace of God will always be found near the center of the Biblical Christian's most powerful motivations.

False teaching - anything that would weaken the believer's ties to his Lord - must be confronted wherever it appears, even if that confrontation requires painful correction.