Status Updates From Sacred Marriage Gift Edition

“In a God-centered view, we preserve our marriage because it brings glory to God and points a sinful world to a reconciling Creator.”

“The holy place is that spot where God is made known to his people, the place where human beings discover each other in love.”

“The reason God became flesh was so that we might know him; correspondingly, God did not create marriage, just to give us a pleasant means of repopulating the world and providing a steady societal institution for the benefit of humanity. He planted marriage among humans as yet another signpost pointing to his own eternal, spiritual existence.”

“The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other, it is a perpetual exercise of mortification…”

Read this book when I was twenty-one– mere weeks before marrying my husband. It has always stuck with me. After twelve years of marriage, I am eager and excited to comb back through and glean again!