So the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can do to earn love, and even more startling, that there is also nothing one can do to unlearn it, or to keep oneself from being loved. This is a religious awakening that is utterly different from any other religious experience, no matter how profoundly spiritual it may seem.


Mystery of Marriage: Meditations on the Miracle (ed. Multnomah, 1985) - ISBN: 9780880702966


So the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can do to earn love, and...

So the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can do to earn love, and...

So the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can do to earn love, and...

So the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can do to earn love, and...