If we can't "love the sinner; hate the sin" then how can we relate to ourselves? Love who we are in Christ but still hate the sin remaining.

We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.

We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.

The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.

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.

The Gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.

Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.