#marriage

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #church #expectations #god #happiness

Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone, I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One. I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#marriage #romance #life

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#love #marriage #women #life

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#marriage #relationships #life

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#force-of-nature #marriage #matrimony #nature #pleasure

I’ve never been the one. Not for anybody.” He closed the distance between them. “You’ll get used to it.” He tipped her face up to his, kissed her. “Why? Why am I the one?” “Because my life opened up, and it flooded with color when you walked back into it. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#love #marriage #romance #sweet #life

I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish and generous at the same time. I believe very few people want to hurt others. I believe that you can be surprised by life. I believe in happy endings. ↗

— Isabel Gillies

#difficulties #life #love #marriage #struggle

It's as important to marry the right life as it is the right person. ↗

— Jan Struther

#life

A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#god #marriage #life

Divorce is the second worst event in a person’s life. The worst event, of course, is marriage. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#event #horrible #life #marriage #painful