Fire and Ice

We studied the words from this talk before we got married. It helped us to really understand the importance of sexual purity before and within marriage.  I'll share a tiny bit of his talk. It's worth a full read or making time for the video.


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"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice,
From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. by Robert Frost"

"Why is this matter of sexual relationships so severe that fire is almost always the metaphor, with passion pictured vividly in flames? What is there in the potentially hurtful heat of this that leaves one's soul- or perhaps the whole world, according to Frost- destroyed, if that flame is left unchecked and those passions unrestrained?"

Holland goes on to state that "God's greatest concerns regarding mortality are how one gets into this world and how one gets out of it." He notes that people are generally quite responsible and cautious when it comes to the taking of life, but the same cannot be said of the giving of life.