#ma

Winter reaches its peak not when a great wind screams from the top of its lungs, but when a lazy breeze whispers from the bottom of its heart ↗

— shivaraj konanavar

#romantic #inspirational

Free spirits have to soar." "True Religion ↗

— Ziggy Marley

#books #inspirational #ziggy-marley #inspirational

Why is it that married people always say "Come in" when everything they do says "Get out"? They talk about their miseries and then ask you why you're unmarried. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#marriage

Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking, rational creature. ↗

— Solanus Casey

#humans #inspirational #inspirational

Strong isn't about not being afraid, Caitlin. It's about facing what you're scared of. ↗

— Lindsay J. Pryor

#inspirational #inspirational-quotes #paranormal #paranormal-romance #paranormal-romance-series

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion. ↗

— William J. Brennan

#free #governmental #individual #intrusion #married

Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity? ↗

— Milan Kundera

#love #marriage #monogamy #promiscuity #life

In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring us into union with him. And this takes us beyond the philosophical to the personal and the practical. If God had the gospel of Jesus's salvation in mind when he established marriage, then marriage only 'works' to the degree that approximates the pattern of God's self-giving love in Christ. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#love #marriage #sacrifice #the-self #love

It is too late for me to learn your wisdom in this matter. From the time I knew aught, I have lived with a knight and his lady whose love lit and warmed the dark hall on winter's nights. Madam, my example comes not from any book of romance. My grandparents walked and breathed; they kissed and quarreled. This I must have, and I will seek it with the point of my knife in a bad husband's heart if I can find it no other way. ↗

— Roberta Gellis

#happiness #historical #love #marriage #romance

Sociologists argue that in contemporary Western society the marketplace has become so dominant that the consumer model increasingly characterizes most relationships that historically were covenantal, including marriage. Today we stay connected to people only as long as they are meeting our particular needs at an acceptable cost to us. When we cease to make a profit - that is, when the relationship appears to require more love and affirmation from us than we are getting back - then we "cut our loses" and drop the relationship. This has also been called "commodification," a process by which social relationships are reduced to economic exchange relationships, and so the very idea of "covenant" is disappearing in our culture. Covenant is therefore a concept increasingly foreign to us, and yet the Bible says it is the essence of marriage. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#love #marriage #love