“Love cannot reconcile with deception”

“Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.”

“Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love.”

“There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.”

“Love can forbear, and Love can forgive...but Love can never be reconciled to an unlovely object... He can never therefore be reconciled to your sin, because sin itself is incapable of being altered; but He may be reconciled to your person because that may be restored and Loved.”

“The endless, agonizing recycling of what might have been, soon followed by a litany of rationalizations and self-deceptions as you struggle to reconcile the void between the person you want to be and the person you fear you are..”