"It is not love that maintains marriage, but from now on, marriage maintains love; because marriage is not based on love, but on God's order and calling in Christ."
— Bonhoeffer
Source: Letters from Prison
Marriage, love
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"If the purpose of marriage is simply to make me happy and enjoy an infatuation ..., then I'd have to get a new marriage every two or three years. But if I really wanted to see God transform me from the inside out, I'd need to concentrate on changing myself rather than on changing my spouse."
— Gary Thomas
Source: Sacred Marriage (Zondervan, rev. ed. 2015), ch. 2 "Romanticism's Ruse," p. 24