David Van beveren

“Emotion is actually nature’s exquisitely efficient information-processing and signaling system, designed to rapidly reorganize behavior in the interests of survival.”
― Sue Johnson, The Love Secret: The revolutionary new science of romantic relationships

“When explaining providence, Wesley says, “Were human liberty taken away, men would be as incapable of virtue as stones. Therefore (with reverence be it spoken) the Almighty himself cannot do this thing. He cannot thus contradict himself or undo what he has done.”43 God must give and cannot take away free will.”
― Thomas Jay Oord, The Uncontrolling Love of God: An Open and Relational Account of Providence

“To be human is to need others, and this is no flaw or weakness.”
― Sue Johnson, The Love Secret: The revolutionary new science of romantic relationships

“It is an ironic paradox: being dependent makes us more independent.”
― Sue Johnson, The Love Secret: The revolutionary new science of romantic relationships