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Marriage Sustains Love
Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on Feb 17, 2012 (message contributor)
MARRIAGE SUSTAINS LOVE
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran pastor, sent to prison in Hitler’s Germany and later martyred for his faith. In 1943, while in his cell, we wrote a wedding sermon that he was never permitted to deliver. In that sermon, he said, "It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love."
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