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.

If you're a Christian how do you deal with stress without Jesus? You don't.

Your heart is smothering under your small ambitions.

A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but he’s what you need.

At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems of works-righteousness. The way to progress as a Christian is to continually repent and uproot these systems the same way we become Christians, namely by the vivid depiction (and re-depiction) of Christ’s saving work for us, and the abandoning of self-trusting efforts to complete ourselves. We must go back again and again to the gospel of Christ-crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what he did and who we are in him.

All life-changing love is inconvenient.

Love is primarily giving. It’s an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.