Differences in personal style can impose formidable barriers to communication.

Confused communication and unity of purpose cannot live together.

Your skill can never buy you love. It may win you admiration and envy, but never love. If that was what you were after, you have wasted your time.

It is hard work to win back love. But don't give up. Those who persevere find more happiness in earning love than they do in gaining it.

When your ears hear and your eyes see the sin, weakness, or failure of your husband or wife, it is never an accident; it is always grace. God loves your spouse, and he is committed to transforming him or her by his grace, and he has chosen you to be one of his regular tools of change.

This side of heaven good marriages are good marriages because the people in those marriages are committed to doing daily the things that keep their marriages good. Things go wrong when couples think they have reached the point when they can retire from their marital work and chill out, lie back, and slide.

Truth that is not spoken in love ceases to be truth because it is twisted by other human agendas. Love that is not guided by truth ceases to be love because it is divorced from God's agenda. Once

The call is to do theology in loving community with other people. Truth not spoken in love ceases to be true because it's bent and twisted by other human agendas.

One way God establishes beauty is by putting things that are different next to each other.

Theology without love is simply very bad theology.

Here it is: a marriage of love, unity, and understanding is not rooted in romance; it is rooted in worship.

These principles are deeply relational because the gospel is. Remember that the gospel of God's grace teaches us that lasting change of heart and hands always takes place in the context of relationship, first with God and then with the people of God.