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

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.

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

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.

It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.

He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.

Our cemeteries are full of people who prayed to live.

The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.

You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn't get it.

When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.

In a normal movie, you'd never see one guy talk for an entire page, whether good or bad.

I think there is something bigger in store for me.

If you don't visit a bad neighborhood, it might visit you.

I love the musicality of words.