A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.

God is sovereign. His grace cannot be tamed.

Only the Lord knows how many children lose heart because their fathers have hard days.

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

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 crucified Savior is not well served by self-pleasing, self-indulging people.

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.