Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.

Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.

Important reminder: It's not fair of you to demand more proof of Christians for their beliefs than you demand for your own.

Within this Christian vision for marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at another person and get a glimpse of the person God is creating, and to say, "I see who God is making you, and it excites me! I want to be part of that. I want to partner with you and God in the journey you are taking to his throne."

The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.

To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.

Prayer turns theology into experience.