Kindness always starts with noticing the needs and hurts of others.
Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise.
God's ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.
Maturity is produced through relationships and community.
Marriage doesn't create problems. It reveals them. You bring unresolved stuff into it.
If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to using that subhuman level against us. We reap whatever we sow.