Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.

Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.

The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.

Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.

It takes both spouses to say, "My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage" to have a great marriage.

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

All forms of love are necessary, and none are to be ignored, but all of us find some forms of love to be more emotionally valuable to us. They are a currency that we find particularly precious, a language that delivers the message of love to our hearts with the most power. Some types of love are more thrilling and fulfilling to us when we receive them.