The perfection we long to experience in earthly love used to be sought only in the sanctuary of the divine. When we imbue our partner with godly attributes and we expect him or her to uplift us from the mundane to the sublime, we create, as Johnson puts it, an “unholy muddle of two holy loves” that cannot help but disappoint.
Funny enough, this is EXACTLY what Tim Keller writes. If you look to anything - even a spouse - to provide what only God can, you will be disappointed.
