“Love calls you to be silent when you want to speak, and to speak when you would like to be silent. Love calls you to act when you would really like to wait, and to wait when you would really like to act. Love calls you to stop when you really want to continue and it calls you to continue when you feel like stopping. Love requires you to lead when you really would like to follow, and to follow when you really want to lead. Love again and again calls you away from your instincts and your comfort. Love always requires personal sacrifice. Love calls you to give up your life.”
― Paul David Tripp
"Marriage always involves two flawed people living with each other in a fallen world. Yet many couples say “I do” with unrealistic expectations, leaving them unprepared for the day-to-day difficulties of married life. ..."
- Paul David Tripp
What Did You Expect? Redeeming the Realities of Marriage
"Somehow, someway, every marriage becomes a struggle. Everyone’s marriage becomes something they didn’t intend it to be. Spending time together is radically different from living together. Reasons for attraction now become sources of irritation. At some point you need something sturdier than romance. You need something deeper than shared interests and mutual attraction. You need something more than marital survival skills. In every marriage either giddy romance wanes and is replaced with a sturdier and more mature love, or the selfishness of sin reduces the marriage to a state of relational détente."
- Paul David Tripp
Marriage: Realistic Expectations? A Q & A With Paul Tripp
Answers to some of life's difficult questions... book by Dr Donald Barnhouse - The Sovereignty of God Revised 2019, Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, 600 Eden Rd., Lancaster, PA 17601. All rights reserved. DGB050
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