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“Active love doesnt ask: 'What does this person have to offer me?' Rather: 'What do I have to offer this person?”
“You might have good, moral efforts of working hard and earning money in order to help feed the poor or something along those lines - and then you get the money youve been seeking and you see and fe...”
“Let me paraphrase what Paul is saying here: Jesus married the Church - Christians, you and me, us. The Church is His literal bride. He laid His life down for the Church. And Paul writes that husban...”
“I believe being a ‘gentleman’ goes well beyond holding the door for a girl and letting her go before you. It’s about being vulnerable for her. I think that when it comes to the way we treat women, ...”
“Jesus seemed to believe that the key to generosity wasn’t having more, but being content with what you already have.”
“Jesus’ idea of blessing is completely contrary to ours. It has nothing to do with what we have, and everything to do with who we are.”
“Here’s the thing: You can be materialistic and poor. You can also be content and rich. It has nothing to do with your income and it has everything to do with your heart. You don’t need to earn more...”
“We always want what is not ours. It’s intriguing. We think if we can just get that, we’ll finally be happy. The lure of what we do not have is deceptive.True freedom, however, is found in being con...”
“You’re not discontent for wanting to be in a relationship, you’re just human.”
“Dating is never mentioned in the Bible, not once. I’m not saying that dating’s a sin or that dating’s evil. That’s not what this book is about. What I am saying is that if we look to Scripture for ...”
“We’re in an a bit of an awkward situation. When the institution of marriage first came about, people commonly got married at around the same age that they began to develop feelings for the opposite...”
“Love is often confused with attraction. Love is an action, it’s a choice. We can choose to love someone. Attraction, however, is a feeling, it’s an emotion, it’s temporary.”
“There’s a certain worth that can only be given to us by God. You see, if you think about it, worth has nothing to do with the object. Worth has everything to do with how much someone is willing to ...”
“There’s a beautiful poem at the beginning of a collection of books we call the Bible. In that poem, it is written: "Then God said, ‘Let us make man.’” God then recognized that it was not good for m...”
“Notice that “love thy neighbor” - a wildly popular piece of wisdom found in the Bible - is a command. Jesus is commanding us to love. Now, Jesus understood that emotions and feelings cannot be comm...”
“Active love doesn’t ask: 'What does this person have to offer me?' Rather: 'What do I have to offer this person?”
