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
“The justification of my life before God is to live because of and toward the living, dying, and rising of Jesus Christ.”
― Ethics
― Ethics
“for the first time, there burst upon me the idea that there might be real marvels all about us, that the visible world might be only a curtain to conceal huge realms uncharted by my very simple theology. And that started in me something with which, on and off, I have had plenty of trouble since—the desire for the preternatural, simply as such, the passion for the Occult. Not everyone has this disease; those who have will know what I mean. I once tried to describe it in a novel. It is a spiritual lust; and like the lust of the body it has the fatal power of making everything else in the world seem uninteresting while it lasts. It is probably this passion, more even than the desire for power, which makes magicians.”
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
“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.”
― 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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