God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.

Both men and women today see marriage not as a way of creating character and community but as a way to reach personal life goals. They are looking for a marriage partner who will 'fulfill their emotional, sexual, and spiritual desires.' And that creates an extreme idealism that in turn leads to a deep pessimism that you will ever find the right person to marry.

There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.

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

To say doctrine doesn't matter, only how you live matters, is itself a doctrine. It's the doctrine of salvation by works.

It is one thing to say that science is only equipped to test for natural causes and cannot speak to any others. It is quite another to insist that science proves that no other causes could possibly exist. . . . There would be no experimental model for testing the statement: 'No supernatural cause for any natural phenomenon is possible.' It is therefore a philosophical presupposition and not a scientific finding.

Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.