THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP

'The best advice...for resisting lust is not to get an Internet filter (although you should do that too!), but to have good friends. If we have genuine friendships in which we learn to give and receive love in a healthy and satisfying way, we will be less inclined to wander off looking for sham substitutes and quick fixes.' 

Rebecca Konydyk DeYoung, Glittering Vices, p.178. 

LOVE & ANGER

'Great love is the root of great anger.'

Rebecca Konydyk DeYoung, Glittering Vices, p.121.

GREED

'The hallmark of well-entrenched greed, then, is a willingness to use people to serve our love for money, rather than the use of money to serve our love for people.'

Rebecca Konydyk DeYoung, Glittering Vices, p.109.

THE DISCIPLINES OF LOVE

'...in our age we are more prone than ever to expect too much of love as a feeling, and too little of love as an ongoing choice or commitment. In our worship services and marriages, we expect emotional highs will carry us through life's difficult times, when we would better expect engagement in daily disciplines to sustain us in our commitments.'

Rebecca Konydyk DeYoung, Glittering Vices, p.97.