Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can’t understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.

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

No one is exempt from trials and tribulations. In fact, this is often what happens to people God loves very much, for it is part of God’s often mysterious and good plan for turning us into something great.

We must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart.

We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself.

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.

Living is giving....If you spend your money on yourself, you are just surviving. But if you want your life to count, if you want to really live - give.