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.

Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.

Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.

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

Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging fields such as academia, publishing, media, entertainment, and the arts. The assumption that society will improve simply be more Christian believers being present is no longer valid.