As you gave the ring to one another and have now received it a second time from the hand of the pastor, so love comes from you, but marriage from above, from God. As high as God is above man, so high are the sanctity, the rights, and the promise of love. It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER, Letters and Papers from Prison, 27-28
In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least of all a marriage, can survive.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER, Letters and Papers from Prison, 31
God gives you Christ as the foundation of your marriage. “Welcome one another, therefore, as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God” (Rom. 15:7). . . . Don’t insist on your rights, don’t blame each other, don’t judge or condemn each other, don’t find fault with each other, but accept each other as you are, and forgive each other every day from the bottom of your hearts.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER, Letters and Papers from Prison, 31-32
It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER, Letters and Papers from Prison, 31
All of these quotes are from This Momentary Marriage by John Piper
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