Marriage Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts

Posted April 4, 2005, 12:09 p.m.

Wonderful piece in the Post this morning by William Raspberry, who has a great understanding of what is wrong with marriage and relationships today. It includes this lovely quote by theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer:

“Your love is your own private possession, but marriage is more than something personal—it is a status, an office. Just as it is the crown, and not merely the will to rule, that makes the king, so it is marriage, and not merely your love for each other, that joins you together in the sight of God and man. . . . It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.”

Marriage Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts (Washington Post, free registration may be required).

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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