Luther and Lewis

If you can look upon your wife as though she were the only woman in the world and there is none besides; if you can look upon your husband as though he was the only man in the world there were none besides, then no king, and not even the sun, will shine brighter and clearer in your eyes than your wife and your husband. For here you have the Word of God which gives you your husband and your wife and says: This man shall be yours; the woman shall be yours. That pleases Me well.—Martin Luther, A marriage sermon, 1531

To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow’s end or the Greek Calends. That is one of the enemy’s stratagems.—C. S. Lewis, Business of Heaven, p. 207, 208.