“Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”

“Love is what brings you together, Lucy. But it’s the blood, sweat, and tears of hard work that keeps you together”

“Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.”

“It's about being in love, and working together, and working together when you aren't in love, and loving when you can't work together.”

“In communities, at work, but particularly in families, people are put together in something like a three-legged race. God means us to cross the finish line together, and all the other people tied together with us play some part in our progress. They are oftentimes to rouse our stubborn sins to the surface, where we can deal with them and overcome them. Bundled together in families, a giant seven or nine or fifteen legged pack, we seem to make very poor progress indeed and fall to the ground in bickering heaps with some regularity. But God has put us together - has appointed each person in your bundle specifically for you, and you for them. And so, 'little children, let us love one another' with might and main, and keep hopping together toward the finish line.”

“Maybe there's a way to keep us in this moment. Not the sad part. But the coming together part.”