“Our feelings probably are not less strong at fifty than they were ten or fifteen years before; but they have changed their objects, and dwell on far different prospects. At five-and-thirty a man thinks of what his own existence is; when the maturity of age has grown into its autumn, he is wrapt up in that of others. The loss of wife or child then becomes more deplorable, as being impossible to repair; for no fresh connection can give us back the companion of our earlier years, nor a "new-sprung race" compensate for that, whose career we hoped to see run.” ThinkingMenGivingYearsChildrenDifferentFeelingsRunningAgeStrongLossRaceExistenceCareersFiveWifeImpossibleObjectsChangedTenConnectionsMaturityThirtyFiftyAutumnCompanionFifteenProspectsFifteen YearsSprung Book:Lodore Source: Lodore
“True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish; that, at least, is how I have taught myself to love my wife.” DesireLove IsWifeObjectsTaughtSakeAffectionMy WifeSelfishGenerosityHelplessTrue Love IsFerventBeing SelfishLove My Wife Book:The Emperor of Ocean Park Source: The Emperor of Ocean Park
“Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church--to crucify himself; whatwe object to is his crucifying his wife.” ChristChurchChristianityWifeObjectsHusbandGentleman Author:Susan B. Anthony
“The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the man's power to waste, and therefore his superiority over other men. ... As is the case with any other object of art, her uselessness is her use.” MenArtUseCasesWifeObjectsWasteWeaponsOfferingIdleSuperioritySplendidUselessness Author:Emily James Smith Putnam
“While the secular world pushes woman to find her identity in herself as a sex object, the popular teachings in the Church, equally mistaken, encourage woman to find her identity in her roles as wife and mother rather than in her status as a person in Christ, a daughter complete in Him.” WorldPersonsMotherSexChristChurchRolesWifeTeachingIdentityObjectsDaughterSecularMistakenWives And Mothers Book:The Healing Presence: Curing the Soul Through Union with Christ Source: The Healing Presence: Curing the Soul Through Union with Christ