Maddie
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“By staying married, we give something to ourselves and to others: hope. Hope that in steadfastly loving someone, we ourselves, for all our faults, will be loved; that the broken world will be made whole. To hitch your rickety wagon to the flickering star of another fallible human being -- what an insane thing to do. What a burden, and what a gift.”
― Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
― Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
“Dating is poetry. Marriage is a novel. There are times, maybe years, that are all exposition.”
― Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
― Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved.” The”
― The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption
― The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption
“Study hard, little one. For if you can read, you can slip into the pages of a book and escape into your mind.”
― Heart of Stone
― Heart of Stone
“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.”
― The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption
― The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption
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