The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.

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

While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.

If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.

It is inaccurate to think the gospel is what saves non-Christians, and then Christians mature by trying hard to live according to biblical principles. It is more accurate to say that we are saved by believing the gospel, and then we are transformed in every part of our minds, hearts, and lives by believing the gospel more and more deeply as life goes on.

The best things that have been written, almost, are by Catholics during the counter Reformation: Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis de Sales, John of the Cross, St. Theresa of Бvila.....great stuff.

To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right.