Love helps those that are hard to pray for turn into people who are easy to pray for. — Donna Collins Tinsley —
For love, we will climb mountains, cross seas, traverse desert sands, and endure untold hardships.Without love, mountains become unclimbable, seas uncrossable, deserts unbearable, and hardships our lo...
There is hope. That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by the experiences of the past. We can learn to love even when we have not received love.
I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved.
When your spouse’s emotional love tank is full and he feels secure in your love, the whole world looks bright and your spouse will move out to reach his highest potential in life.
What we dislike in others is often a weakness in our own lives.
Welcome to the real world of marriage, where hairs are always on the sink and little white spots cover the mirror, where arguments center on which way the toilet paper comes off and whether the lid sh...
We need not agree on everything, but we must find a way to handle our differences so that they do not become divisive.
We have been led to believe that if we are really in love, it will last forever. We will always have the wonderful feelings that we have at this moment. Nothing could ever come between us. Nothing wil...
We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is totally altruistic.
We are talking about love, and love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself. Most of us do things each day that do not come naturally for us. For some of us, that is ge...
The social institution of marriage is first and foremost a covenant relationship in which a man and a woman pledge themselves to each other for a lifetime partnership. In the biblical account of creat...
The person who is in-love has the ilusion that his beloved is perfect.
The key to quality time is found in the values and priorities you as parents determine to cherish and implement in your home.
The in-love experience does not focus on our own growth or on the growth and development of the other person. Rather, it gives us the sense that we have arrived and that we do not need further growth.
Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments.
It may surprise you that the primary lifetime threat to your child is his or her own anger.
Camp out in the living room. Spread your blankets and pillows on the floor. Get your Pepsi and popcorn. Pretend the TV is broken and talk like you used to when you were dating. Talk till the sun comes...
All of us blossom when we feel loved and wither when we do not feel loved.
A gift is a gift only when given as a genuine expression of love, not as an effort to cover over past failures.