Not Yet Married: The Pursuit of Joy in Singleness and Dating

by Marshall Segal

A lot of us want to keep God close enough to save us but far enough away to let us do what we want to do.

The shortest answer is that we were meant to show others a bit of who God is, to share and display the love we’ve experienced with him.

“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.”

We should feel the weight of our lost planet and the urgency of our few days on it.

Learn to love the life you have with God, even if it is the life you never wanted.

Independence can breed isolation, and isolation separates us from the grace we need and sets us against the first and greatest calling on our lives.

Pain becomes proud because it believes no one else understands. No one feels what I feel. And so pain distances itself from anyone who might try to speak into its suffering.

We live by faith, and we eat by work.

Don’t start dating without praying, and don’t stop praying while you’re waiting.

God does not do default callings. A calling, by definition, is intentional and personal, not passive and sweeping.

he died to make us the love of his life despite how little we deserved him.