“What more degrades woman today than that she so often seeks marriage as a support? Why is the holy sacrament of love, the sanctity of the family state, so often prostituted and destroyed, but because marriage is entered upon as a necessity or a convenience? And what can so place marriage on its only true basis of mutual love, mutual fitness, mutual esteem, as for woman to make herself independent of it as a mere means of subsistence?” MeanStatesTodayMarriageSupportHolyBasesIndependentMereEsteemDestroyedMutualSacramentsConvenienceSanctityDegradeSubsistenceMutual Love Author:Mary C. Ames
“Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your private pleasure at the expense of your spouse, you are living against yourself and destroying your joy. But if you devote yourself with all your heart to the holy joy of your spouse, you will also be living for your joy and making a marriage after the image of Christ and His church.” IfsHeartJoyChristChurchPleasureMarriageWifeHolyHusbandFleshExpensesDestroyingSpouseHusband And Wife Book:Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist Source: Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
“You can only afford to be generous if you actually have some money in the bank to give. In the same way, if your only source of love and meaning is your spouse, then anytime he or she fails you, it will not just cause grief but a psychological cataclysm. If, however, you know something of the work of the Spirit in your life, you have enough love "in the bank" to be generous to your spouse even when you are not getting much affection or kindness at the moment.” IfsKnowsWayGivingEnoughMomentsSpiritCausesGriefMarriageKindnessFailingSourceHolyAffectionPsychologicalGenerousHoly SpiritSpouseEnough Love Author:Timothy Keller
“What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.” LoveShouldMemoriesMarriageFashionHolyEngagedEngagementPillowLove One AnotherLove And MarriagePositive MarriageLasting MarriageNewlywedsMarriage Advice For NewlywedsEngagement Day Book:Love letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1839-1863 Source: Love letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1839-1863