“But if we want thriving marriages, we must stop focusing on our own ne...” — Greg Gorman and Julie Gorman Quote

“But if we want thriving marriages, we must stop focusing on our own needs and commit to focusing on meeting theirs.”

“Many marital arguments stem from expectations formed in childhood. You can avoid a lot of arguments by understanding the origin of one another's expectations and working toward cultivating realistic expectations together.”

“Whether our conflicts are gigantic or minute, confrontations typically result from unmet expectations.”

“More than a permanent remedy, feeling the divine within us is a perpetual reminder.”

“It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of another faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them—and then they leap.”

“God is tolerance.”

“Beloved, giving a license to the cravings of this world will destroy your driven enthusiasm to live.”

“Just as there is no place where God is not, there is no state where saintliness cannot find a place. Whether anchorites or wanderers, princes who retreat to the desert, merchants who abandon their shops and go begging by the roadside, there is in Islam no lack of vocations which take their impulse from renunciation and find their fulfilment in exile. But perfection does not come from these ruptures. The best stay where they are, since "He is with you wherever you are". They do not flee their condition, be they caliph or water bearer; sometimes it is their condition which flees them. Their retreat is the crowd, their desert is the public square. Conformity is their asceticism, the ordinary is their miracle.”