The getting out part [of advise] may well be true. Because if you have tried the tender love thing... typically the abuser is not going to change until they are pushed in a corner.

People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.

Love is a choice you make everyday.

Love doesn't erase the past, but it makes the future different.

Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself.

Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love.

Remember that your ultimate goal is for your children to grow up secure in your love, strong in their faith, and with sound character.

We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history.

Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures. (1 Cor 13:5)

Don't be a victim of the urgent. In the long run, much of what seems so pressing right now won't even matter. What you do with your children will matter forever.

If we are to develop an intimate relationship, we need to know each other's desires. If we wish to love each other, we need to know what the other person wants.

Stop trying to change reality by eliminating complexity.

Be you, love you. All ways, always.

sometimes we don't need to think to beleive

God is the story nature tells to those who are listening.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.

Education is to learning as tour groups are to adventure.

I'll do anything for $50. People are always trying to get me to do dumb things. The possibilities are endless.

No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right; and when he sees it is not so, the prejudice will be gone.

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.