Please explain and paraphrase the following sentences.

1- He sang tuneful ballads about the big empty world newly wounded by the fall and not far removed from the memory of paradise, needing love, sweet love.

2- If anyone draws inspiration from this book, may it be credited to me.

3- Hardships push them up against the grace of God.

4- They found a way, through hardships, to attain to a new level of love rather than simply surviving or grimly hanging on.

5-The words “for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health” don’t begin to capture the challenges that we have encountered in our marriage.

6-When you touch Jesus nail-scarred hands to say thank you, you will have every confidence He’ll know you mean it.