Some extraordinary quotes from Heaven's Song: Sexual Love as it was Meant to Be" by Christopher West, pgs. 150, 152-154:
"Every marriage is a struggle to overcome the effects of sin on the human heart and to love as God intended in the beginning. And every marriage fails in numerous ways to do so. But for all of our failures in this regard, hope is not lost."
"...if spouses are to overcome lust and the certainty of death that comes with it (see Rom 8:6), they must open their union totally to the presence of the living God, to the 'Lord and Giver of Life.'"
"There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear" (1 Jn 4:18).
"The 'perfect love'...that casts out fear is not [our] own...." It does not originate in us.
"No sacrifice is too great for true lovers - no suffering too much to bear - when it is need to ensure the victory of good over evil, love over lust, life over death...This is precisely the perfect love in which every husband and wife are called to participate."
"...when marriage exposes a person's selfishness and sins it's doing what is it meant to do: bringing our sins and wounds to light so we can recognize them, confess them, and begin the healing process."
Wow! How many of us signed up for this when we took our vows?
