What can it mean, that Christ's blood was spilt for our sins, that "by his bruises we are healed"?  Perhaps His perfect love means His identification with human suffering is so complete, that in one fell vision He comprehended the depth and range and terror of all our individual pain.  Perhaps it is the almost irresistible power of His superabundant love manifest in His choice to suffer what He suffered, that transforms the sinner's heart.

Terryl & Fiona Givens, The God Who Weeps, pg. 90

God is invested in our lives and happiness, because He chooses to be a Father to us.  His concern with human sin is with the pain and suffering it produces.  Sympathy and sorrow, not anger and vengeance, are th emotions we must look to in order to plumb the nature of the divine response to sin. 

...Sin is pain, and the intensity of His response to sin is commensurate with the intensity of that pain He knows sin will entail, and in which He has already chosen to share.  For He is the God who weeps.

Terryl & Fiona Givens, The God Who Weeps, pg. 79

A God without body or parts is conceivable.  But a God without passions would engender in our hearts neither love nor interest.

Terryl & Fiona Givens, The God Who Weeps, pg. 25

God's pain is as infinite as his love.

Terryl & Fiona Givens, The God Who Weeps, pg. 25

Any God whose only response to pain and suffering is to inflict more pain and suffering, is not aGod Ivan [of the Brothers Karamazov] can worship....if gods such as Moloch, or the God of some Christians, exist, they do not deserve our reverence or our love.

Terryl & Fiona Givens, The God Who Weeps, pg. 18

You can't catch fish if you don't dare go where they are.

Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It, pg. 42

Happiness in marriage fulfils his deepest need, that of belonging to another person, of being needed, wanted, loved, and of loving someone else.  In the company of a friend, man feels free to be himself, knowing that he will be understood and accepted for just what he is. In fact, just to be a man omong men, to share the common lot of all men, can bring deep satisfaction to a human being.

Lowell Bennion, Religion and the Pursuit of Truth pg. 97