SACRED MARRIAGE #3

I'll wrap up my list of favorite quotes from Sacred Marriage today with chapters ten through thirteen. 

p. 188, God is always worthy of being obeyed, and God calls me to serve my spouse - so regardless of how she treats me at any particular moment, I am called to respond as a servant.

p. 222, Our passions are what make us come alive.  The apathetic person is a pathetic person.  While we often fear our passions because they can carry us into an affair, a fight, or some other destructive behavior, the solution is not living a less passionate life but finding the right things to be passionate about.

p. 231, They are not coming together in order to escape loneliness, more favorably pool their financial resources, or merely gain an outlet for sexual desire.  Above all these other reasons, they have joined themselves to each other as a way to live out and deepen their faith in God.  Even if you didn't enter marriage for this reason, you can make a decision to maintain your marriage on this basis.

p. 235, Love is an intentional movement toward another.

p. 235, The truth of the matter is this: By our words, we either draw forth God's presence or we push him away.

p. 236, Christianity does not direct us to focus on finding the right person; it calls us to become the right person.

p. 250, It is spiritual fraud to enter marriage and then to live like a single man or woman.

p. 252, Here's the kicker: Patience can be formed only in the crucible of frustration - making marriage, with its multitude of tasks, one of the best schools for patience there is.


I hope these three days of quotes have encouraged and challenged you in regards to your role in your own marriage.  They are not things I've mastered, but areas I need to work on in my own life - some much more than others. 

Here are the other Sacred Marriage posts. One. Two.