“Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.”

“In it she told me, "Thanks a lot! I'm ruined - gloriously ruined." I nodded with sudden understanding. "that's it - that describes what has happened to me." I was ruined for life as I had known it before, but gloriously ruined!”

“Joy begins with our convictions about spiritual truths we're willing to bet our lives on, and truths that are lodged so deeply within us that they produce a settled assurance about God.”

“I would rather walk every day in the darkness with a God who remains a mystery to me than in the light with a God I completely understand.”

“Wherever this shadowed path might lead, we were both irrevocably committed to follow it to the end.”

“When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.”

“Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.”