The issue on which everything hangs is not whether you like His teaching but if He ‪rose from the dead.

You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.

Faith in the gospel restructures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our view of the world. Behavioral compliance to rules without heart-change will be superficial and fleeting… We can only change permanently as we take the gospel more deeply into our understanding and into our hearts. We must feed on the gospel, as it were, digesting it and making it part of ourselves. That is how we grow.

But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.

Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?

While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories.

Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.