Quotes about Love

Loving is a feeling that brings both joy and pain to my heart. Joy from being with you, being filled with an emotion so deep and tender that no other feeling can compare. Pain from knowing that I'm so in love, that I'm more vulnerable than I've ever

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained

Though our feelings come and go, Gods love for us does not.

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He assures us of God's love for us. He sets us free from guilt because He died for us and from paralyzing fear because He reigns. He gives meaning to marriage and home, work and leisure, personhood and citizenship.

Sexual expression within a marriage is not an option or an extra. It is certainly not, as it has sometimes been considered, a necessary evil in which spiritual Christians engage only to procreate children. It is far more than a physical act. God created it to be the expression an experience of love on the deepest human level and to be a beautiful and powerful bond between husband and wife.

Marriage itself is consummated with the literal bodily union of husband and wife. From that point on, the husband should regard the wife as his own flesh. If she hurts, he ought to feel the pain. If she has needs, he should embrace those needs as his own. He should seek to feel what she feels, desire what she desires, and in effect, give her the same care and consideration he gives his own body.

The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God's help to do just that.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.