“He was showing how marriage is not a contract, involving merely an exchange of goods and services. Rather, marriage is a covenant, involving an exchange of persons. Kippley's argument was that every covenant has an act whereby the covenant is enacted and renewed; and the marital act is a covenant act. When the marriage covenant is renewed, God uses it to give new life. To renew the marital Covenant and use birth control to destroy the potential for new life is tantamount to receiving the Eucharist and spitting it on the ground.” ChristianReligionFamilyEthicsCatholicSacramentsBirth ControlSaintsReformedPresbyterian Book:Rome Sweet Home Source: Rome Sweet Home
“We are created for the sake of love. When we experience love in family life, it is heavenly, but it is still only an image of the greater glory we hope to behold in heaven.” LoveHeavenFamilyEverlasting Life Author:Scott Hahn
“Marriage and family life give us constant opportunities to deny ourselves for the sake of others. And yet self-denial is not a mask for self-contempt, but the necessary means for achieving self-mastery; for self-mastery makes possible our self-giving and self-fulfillment. Sin is not wanting too much, but settling for too little. It's settling for self-gratification rather than self-fulfillment.” FamilyMarriageTraditional Values Book:First Comes Love: Finding Your Family in the Church and the Trinity Source: First Comes Love: Finding Your Family in the Church and the Trinity
