Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically. It is mainly about displaying the covenant keeping love between Christ and his Church
John PiperOh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.
John PiperSo saving grace, converting grace, for Augustine, is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over all other joys and therefore sways the will. The will is free to move toward whatever it delights in most fully, but it is not within the power of our will to determine what that sovereign joy will be.
John Piper