No one has ever been deeply changed by an act of the will. The only thing that can re-forge and change a life at its root, is love.

On Christ's attitude toward His disciples: "If I gave away My big all to get to you, can you give away your little all to follow Me?

At Gethsemane: "Jesus is subordinating His loudest desires to His deepest desires.

The only way your child will grow out of their dependency into self-sufficient adults is for you to essentially abandon your own independence for 20 years or so.

True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.