Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately casts us into a countercultural pursuit.

The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.

Marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.

Before criticizing your wife's faults remember that they may have prevented her from getting a better husband.

Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God measures more with how much love one worketh, than the amount he doeth.

When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.

To love another person is to see the face of God

Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it.

True friends are always together in spirit.

It's never too late. We've come around to a better way of life with showing love and giving love. That's what matters.

The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is not in separation. It is in simple integrity that leads a man and a woman to square up their shoulders and meet their obligations. It is found in the Golden Rule, a time-honored principle that should first and foremost find expression in marriage.

Love is the only force that can erase the differences between people or bridge the chasms of bitterness.