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Gary Chapman
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- Criticism
- Marital Conflict
People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.”
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William Shakespeare
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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites.
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How Do You Mourn?
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Jonathan K. Dodson
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In his thoughtful book, Our Good Crisis: Overcoming Moral Chaos with the Beatitudes , Jonathan K. Dodson asks an important question: how do you mourn the losses in your life: How do you mourn? ...
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Gracious and faithful God–our Creator,
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Richard Herman
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Psalm 25:4-5, Matthew 1:23, James 5:14-15, 2 Corinthians 1:3-4, Luke 2:10-11, Isaiah 9:6, Jeremiah 29:11, Matthew 25:35-36, Proverbs 21:1, Matthew 5:14-16, Matthew 28:19-20, John 14:13, Luke 2:1-20, Mark 5:25-34, John 11:17-44
Gracious and faithful God–our Creator, Redeemer and Comforter: When we don’t know the way–You show us the way; and when we can’t find a way–You make a way. Thank you! Thank you for Your gift of a Sav...
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God of hope and anticipation—who’s
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Richard Herman
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God of hope and anticipation—who’s constant in love and with us always and everywhere: We need you! ...For we do nothing of value on our own. We need you to heal—because we can’t do it. Please make...
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Wayne Dyer
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- Relationships
- Challenges of Marriage
Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.
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G. K. Chesterton
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- Marriage
- Challenges of Marriage
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman,...
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The Primary Problem of Marriage
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Bertrand Russell
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- Marriage
- Self-Actualization
Destructive to marriage is the self-fulfillment ethic that assumes marriage and the family are primarily institutions of personal fulfillment, necessary for us to become “whole” and happy. The assumpt...
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Richard Pryor
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Marriage is tough because you have to deal with feelings and lawyers.
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The (Seeming) End of the Line
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Jonathan Grant
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A few years ago Christian friends of ours, after several years of marriage, came to see Esther and me to explain that their relationship had reached an impasse and that they could see no alternative b...
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Christopher West
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- Sex
- Marriage
Marital love is a reflection of how God loves. It is free, total, faithful and fruitful.
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G. K. Chesterton
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- War
- Marriage
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
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What is Marriage For?
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John Mark Comer
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One day we were out running errands. The radio in my car was playing in the background, and between songs there was an advertisement for an online dating service. The spokesman-doctor-expert guy was d...
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Brian Jennings
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Neither truth nor peace can create wholeness without the other. A husband’s complaints against his wife may be true. A wife’s complaints against her husband may be true. If they only care about these ...
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1 Corinthians 13:, 1 Peter 4:8, Ephesians 4:2, 1 John 4:18, Proverbs 10:12
A true relationship is two unperfect people refusing to give up on each other.
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David Brooks
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- Marriage
Marriage starts as a joy and ends up an education.
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Timothy Keller
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- Marriage
In sharp contrast with our culture, the Bible teaches that the essence of marriage is a sacrificial commitment to the good of the other. That means that love is more fundamentally action than emotion....
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Jonathan Grant
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- Marriage
The two most influential characteristics of the modern self—radical individualism and expressive authenticity—create a perfect storm for relationships.
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George Washington
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- Marriage
- Misery
I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one’s life, the foundation of happiness or misery.
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Timothy Keller
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- Marriage
It seems almost oxymoronic to believe that this new idealism has led to a new pessimism about marriage, but that is exactly what has happened. In generations past there was far less talk about compati...
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Rowan Williams
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Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chose...
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An Opportunity to Excel in Love
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Gary Thomas
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- Love
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Galatians 5:13-14, Romans 16:3-4, Acts 18:1-3, Genesis 17:21, John 13:1-17
Marriage calls us to an entirely new and selfless life. . . . Any situation that calls me to confront my selfishness has enormous spiritual value, and I slowly began to understand that the real purpos...
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Mutual Accusations
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William Ury
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Genesis 3:8-13, Matthew 7:3-5, Romans 14:10-13, Luke 6:41-42, James 6:41-42, James 4:11-12, Ephesians 4:31-32
In the mid-1980s, I helped facilitate a series of conferences between top Soviet and American policy advisers on the question of how to prevent a nuclear war. The times were tense and the accusations ...
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Helen Roland
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- Marriage
Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
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Les and Leslie Parrott
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- Marriage
- Perfection
Marriages can never be perfect because people are not perfect. Being human, every bride and groom has faults as well as virtues. We are at times gloomy, cranky, selfish, or unreasonable. We are a mixt...
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Our Aim in Marriage is Destructive
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David Platt
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- Marriage
A man or woman’s aim is to find a mate who completes him or her. In this view, marriage is an end in itself, and sexual consummation is a celebration of such completion. Yet the Bible teaches that God...
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A Roomful of Yearning & Regret
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Timothy and Kathy Keller
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Writer Wendy Plump wrote a candid, vulnerable article in the NY Times called “A Roomful of Yearning and Regret” (Dec. 9, 2010). In the article she disclosed that both her & her husband had affair...
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The Echo of an Argument
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John Ortberg
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- Anger
- Marriage
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2 Corinthians 5:18, Psalm 34:18, Romans 12:18, James 1:19-20, Proverbs 15:1, Matthew 6:14-15, Colossians 3:13
Philip Yancey writes of a friend whose marriage was choked by hostility. One night the friend reached the breaking point: “I hate you!” he screamed at his wife. “I won’t take it any more. I’ve had eno...
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Alexander Schmemann
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A marriage which does not constantly crucify its own selfishness and self-suffiency, which does not ‘die to itself’ that it may point beyond itself, is not a Christian marriage.
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A Failure to Appreciate the Other’s Point of View
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John Stott
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Proverbs 18:13, Matthew 18:16, Romans 12:18, Proverbs 20:3, Matthew 5:24
Most quarrels are due to a misunderstanding, and the misunderstanding is due to our failure to appreciate the other person’s point of view. It is more natural to us to talk than to listen, to argue th...