Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quote

Your love is your own private possession, but marriage is more that 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.


Letters and Papers from Prison


Your love is your own private possession, but marriage is more that something personal — it is a status, an office. Just as it is the crown, and...

Your love is your own private possession, but marriage is more that something personal — it is a status, an office. Just as it is the crown, and...

Your love is your own private possession, but marriage is more that something personal — it is a status, an office. Just as it is the crown, and...

Your love is your own private possession, but marriage is more that something personal — it is a status, an office. Just as it is the crown, and...