With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.

When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

 

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.

But love ... is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the way we do for each other every day.

 

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
 

It takes a loose rein to keep a marriage tight

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50's, I realized that ...I had to step up to the plate.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and choice of partner.
 

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be ...but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.


 

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.