If I want to be loved as I am, I have to be willing to love others as they are.

We probably don't have to convince you that your spouse isn't perfect. No one is! But mistakes create opportunities for us to extend God's grace. Our willingness to forgive is one of the greatest evidences of Christ within us.

The Situation Principle: Never let the situation mean more than the relationship.

Any married man should forget his mistakes—there's no use in two people remembering the same thing.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.

Marriage, like any long-term relationship, requires us to . . . wade through a few things that are difficult. work for many things that are needed. wait on some things that take time. watch out for those things that can be harmful. wave good-bye to personal things that are selfish.

When somebody loves you with no strings attached and no personal agenda, it's the most freeing thing in the world.

It takes quantity as well as quality to develop warm and caring relationships.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.

The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity are adopted with design.

I really admire people who have long-distance relationships. It's an incredible achievement. I couldn't do it.