The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

by Timothy J. Keller

We look to sex and romance to give us what we used to get from faith in God.

Only if you have learned to serve others by the power of the Holy Spirit will you have the power to face the challenges of marriage.

To be part of a whole, to become part of a greater unity, you have to surrender your independence.

She began to experience what can be called “emotional wealth”—a sense of being loved so deeply that when someone wrongs us we can afford to be generous, able to forgive.