Marriage Is Quotes

“Jesus did not hesitate to address the underlying issues of sin in the lives of each of these people. Doing so was not a hindrance to his ministry; it was the point. Jesus came to save us from our sin, not merely to comfort us in spite of it. As his followers, our obligation is to love our neighbors enough to tell them the truth. And, if my former pastor is right, doing so may be the thing that separates us from the white noise of consumer culture, creating a chance for radical intervention. We have nothing to fear and everything to win.”
― Andrew T. Walker, Marriage Is: How Marriage Transforms Society and Cultivates Human Flourishing

“God’s plan. It also means that marriage is, to quote Jesus “from the beginning” (Matt. 19:4–6). Marriage isn’t an accident or an afterthought. God’s perfection meant that his plan to introduce marriage between male and female was to be the unquestioned best.”
― Andrew T. Walker, Marriage Is: How Marriage Transforms Society and Cultivates Human Flourishing

“Why are we Millennial evangelicals, who ardently believe that Christians should hold fast to the biblical definition of marriage—a definition that countless societies and countless nonreligious thinkers have all held to? Because we love our neighbors. We can’t sit idly by as the basic social unit of civilization is redefined before our very eyes. If the Bible teaches anything, it teaches that the family is the building block of society. When we distance ourselves from this truth, we’ll certainly change the world—and not for the better.”
― Andrew T. Walker, Marriage Is: How Marriage Transforms Society and Cultivates Human Flourishing

“When the church declines to speak the truth about marriage, it invites competing and false views that rob marriage of its purpose. Were the church to “get out of the marriage business,” as some are tempted, two mistakes will follow. First, the church will allow a false understanding of marriage to dominate the public square. Second, the church will become a secularized version of itself. Christians long ago insisted that a culture of no-fault divorce would not affect Christian marriages. But today, we’re all too familiar with the testimonies of scarred Christians who have endured divorce. The reality of divorce within the church bears out this truth: if the church is not holding fast to the truth of marriage, it will bend and accommodate itself to the dominant marriage ideology of the public square.”
― Andrew T. Walker, Marriage Is: How Marriage Transforms Society and Cultivates Human Flourishing

“When we speak of marriage as only a theological construct, we do a disservice to the institution’s public significance. There aren’t two kinds of marriage—one secular, one sacred. There’s only one marriage with one purpose, regardless of how different religious traditions handle or interpret the institution. Government does not uphold a particular theological interpretation of marriage; it upholds a view of marriage that differing theological and nontheological systems rightly accommodate. That’s why civilizations across human history—some of them irreligious—have acknowledged marriage.”
― Andrew T. Walker, Marriage Is: How Marriage Transforms Society and Cultivates Human Flourishing

“What if we viewed a bride walking down an aisle toward a tuxedoed groom standing anxiously at an altar as the first step on a lifelong march toward justice and the common good? What if we understood that white dress and tux as work clothes, and the wedding rings as essential equipment for building a strong social foundation? What if a pledge of permanence meant more for economic security than just the fulfillment of sexual ecstasy?”
― Andrew T. Walker, Marriage Is: How Marriage Transforms Society and Cultivates Human Flourishing