I believe the most important synonym of the word love in a marriage is forgiveness. I believe in working it through, crying it through, even fighting… - Beth Moore

Sometimes a storm in your life is what will blow you to the place you are longing to be.

Why...would God go to the trouble to plant a garden that is forced to sprout rather than commanding it into existence?" She came to understand that "God delights in watching things grow.

As long as we live, our self-absorption and our insecurity will walk together, holding hands and swinging them back and forth like two little girls on their way to a pretend playground they can never find. Human nature dictates that most often we will be as insecure as we are self-absorbed. The best possible way to keep from getting sucked into the superficial narcissistic mentality that money, possessions, and sensuality can satisfy and secure us is to deliberately give ourselves to something much greater...[Christ] showed us that giving, rather than getting, is the means to receiving...to find yourself, your true self, you must lose yourself in something larger.