Maddie

“When we learn to respond to each other rather than react, we will move much more quickly in our conflict toward resolution and reconciliation. Reactions only stoke the fires of conflict; responses, particularly godly ones, help us snuff out the conflict.”
― Matt Chandler, The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption

“The justification of my life before God is to live because of and toward the living, dying, and rising of Jesus Christ.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics

“Dating is poetry. Marriage is a novel. There are times, maybe years, that are all exposition.”
― Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

“What made me love Christ wasn’t that all of a sudden I figured out how to do life. What made me love Christ is that when I was at my worst, when I was at my lowest point, when I absolutely could not clean myself up and there was nothing anybody could do with me, right at that moment, Christ said, “I’ll take that one. That’s the one I want.”
― Matt Chandler, The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption