"The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living."
"It is in maternity that woman fulfills her physiological destiny; it is her natural 'calling,' since her whole organic structure is adapted for the perpetuation of the species. But we have seen already that human society is never abandoned wholly to nature. And for about a century the reproductive function in particular has no longer been at the mercy solely of biological chance; it has come under the voluntary control of human beings."
"And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and clothed them" (Genesis 3:21).
"True sexuality is a function of the total personality, and is experienced and expressed only in the lives of genuinely mature people. Anybody listening carefully understands that many people use sex as a language through which they whisper reassurance to themselves. That is the meaning of it for women or men who are uneasy about their own sexual identification and who use it to assure themselves of their femininity or masculinity rather than to communicate something to another person. It is perhaps the most tragic of all the uses of sex, because it leaves the man or woman fundamentally in isolation from another individual. This 'reassuring' use only underscores our human capacity to make other people into means of achieving our own ends. Such an attitude is the death of any genuine reaching out to another."
"He came to his own home and his own people received him not!"
"...but to all who received him (the Lord Jesus Christ) he gave power to become children of God."
"...that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that if possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead."
"I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me, and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me" (Galatians 2:20).
"But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us" (2 Corinthians 4:7).
"though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed every day." (II Cor. 5:l6)
"So open your hearts to one another as Christ has opened his heart to you, and God will be glorified" (Phillips paraphrase).
"My little children, with whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you!"
"I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you" (Jeremiah 31:3).
"Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in travail! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her that is married, says the Lord." Isaiah 54:1