![]() ![]() As high as God is above man, so high are the sanctity, the rights, and the promise of love. ![]() Just as it is the crown, and not merely the will to rule, that makes the kind, so it is marriage and not merely your love for each other, that joins you together in the sight of God and man.ĭietrich Bonhoeffer, ‘Letters and Papers from Prison’, “A Wedding Sermon from a Prison Cell”Īs 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. Your love is your own private possession, but marriage is more than something personal - it is a status, and office. Marriage is more than your love for each other.In your love you see only the heaven of your own happiness, but in marriage you are placed at a post of responsibility towards the world and mankind. ![]()
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