" [M]y dear son and daughter, you need not consider praying for a pious spouse a disgrace. For you do not consider it a disgrace to ask God to give you a sound hand or leg. . . . Now a pious spouse is as necessary as a sound hand or leg. For if a husband or wife do not turn out well, you enjoy few good days or hours and would prefer to have a paralyzed hand or leg instead. MARTIN LUTHER, What Luther Says "

― Voddie T. Baucham Jr. , What He Must Be …If He Wants to Marry My Daughter