Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.

The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

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

A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.

Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us.

What keeps the marriage going is your commitment to your spouse's holiness.

Joblessness sets you free psychologically

Sometimes, all you can take are memoriesBut if you’re lucky enough to capture the moment, it lives forever, immortally fixed.

If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much.

There is no burden in love, because love is always selfish

You can have the love you want, if you can afford its price tag. For every love has its price, monetary or non-monetary.

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and profound than any party affiliation.

At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.

To succeed, you must first believe you can.

The same energy not allowed to move becomes stagnant, stale, creates sadness