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Favorite marriage quotes

As my wife and I approach our fiftieth wedding anniversary, I'd like to share a few of my favorite quotes regarding marriage...  ON THE COVENANT A good motto for the bride and groom: "We are a work in progress with a lifetime contract." (Phyllis Koss) "It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love." (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) "Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy -- it's supposed to make you married. "  (Frank Pittman) "I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them -- it was that promise."   (Thorn...

Van Til on reason and science

Here are a few excerpts from Cornelius Van Til's tract,  Why I Believe in God . He is debating with a skeptic the use of reason, experience, and science in defending the Christian faith:  ---------   "...by my belief in God I do have unity in my experience. Not of course the sort of unity that you want. Not a unity that is the result of my own autonomous determination of what is possible. But a unity that is higher than mine and prior to mine. On the basis of God's counsel I can look for facts and find them without destroying them in advance. "I see both order and disorder in every dimension of life. But I look at both of them in the light of the Great Orderer Who is back of them. I need not deny either of them in the interest of optimism or in the interest of pessimism. "And yet I find all these, though standing on their heads, reporting much that is true. I need only to turn their reports right side up, making God instead of man the center of it all, and I have...