“Remember that being discontented is like taking ugly pills, and they are addictive — you will find yourself still taking them even after you get married” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. xiii).
Discontent Is Portable
“Discontent is very rarely fixd by rearranging the furniture or by walking from over here to over there. Wherever you go, there you are” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. xii).
An Exuberant Group
“And the Puritans loved the arts, wore brightly colored clothing, smoked and drank, and loved making love to their wives. They were an exuberant group, full of, as the French might say, les beans” (5 Cities, p. 138).
And With No Way to Find That Out
“The great problem with discontented people (and that means discontented husbands and wives) is that they are the most unteachable people on earth” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. xii).
What We Actually Did
“One of our cultural commonplaces is that the Puritans were dour iconoclasts, capable of smashing beautiful things in cathedrals, but incapable of producing anything of literary merit. But if we examine the works produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by men who were either Puritans or establishment Protestants, what do we find? These men …
Which Rarely Turns Out Well
“Domineering fathers and manipulative mothers are frequently tempted to use the courtship model as a way of controlling their children instead of serving them” (From 5 Paths, p. 81).
Three Questions on Guidance
“When the revealed will of God for all Christians is being honored, what is our responsibility after that? We have a great responsibility to conduct our lives, including this aspect, with wisdom. I counsel young people to consider three basic questions as they attempt to do that. What are your abilities? What are your opportunities? …
Her Name is Suzy Lordschoice
“An attractive young woman joins the college and career group at church, and all of a sudden about ten guys start hearing from the Holy Spirit” (From 5 Paths, p. 77).
Honor, Not Dishonor
[Concerning 1 Pet. 3:7, on the wife as the weaker vessel] “Too often men read this passage and unfortunately respond to it with a junior high mentality. Thinking of every difference in terms of competition, they start doing a little touchdown dance. ‘My wife loses! I am the strong one!’ But this response just proves, …
And They Were On Fire Too
“Modern prejudices against the Puritans and Reformers make it hard for us to see that sixteenth-century Puritans were not scribblers of fundamentalist screeds, but foremost scholars, poets, historians, and writers . . . It is too often assumed that our Reformers were simply hedge preachers or hot gospelers, but that is a gross caricature. In …