The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.

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

The goal of prayer is not just the sharing of our ideas, but also of ourselves.

When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.

While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. 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.

What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.

Marriage is two broken people having little broken people.