The world says you are loved because of what you do. Jesus says you can now do all things because you are loved.

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.

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.

Everyone worships something. The only choice you get is what to worship.

The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.

Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.

Within this Christian vision for marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at another person and get a glimpse of the person God is creating, and to say, "I see who God is making you, and it excites me! I want to be part of that. I want to partner with you and God in the journey you are taking to his throne."