The man who sanctifies his wife understands that this is his divinely ordained responsibility... Is my wife more like Christ because she is married to me? Or is she like Christ in spite of me? Has she shrunk from His likeness because of me? Do I sanctify her or hold her back? Is she a better woman because she is married to me?

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

Listen well, and you will be pronounced a "brilliant" conversationalist!

Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or her back.

There can be no burden for distant unreached peoples without a burden for unreached neighbors.

Marriage is a call to die [to self]... Christian marriage vows are the inception of a lifelong practice of death, of giving over not only all you have, but all you are. Is this a grim gallows call? Not at all! It is no more grim than dying to self and following Christ. In fact, those who lovingly die for their [spouses] are those who know the most joy, have the most fulfilling marriages, and experience the most love.

The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.