ON MARRIAGE

JANE WELLS (1886)

Let your love be stronger than your hate, or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break. Believe the best rather than the worst. People have a way of living up-or-down to your opinion of them. Remember that true friendship is the basis for any lasting relationship. The person you chose to marry is deserving of the courtesies and kindness you bestow on your friends.

RICHARD BACH

• Don’t ever assume that your wife is a mind-reader, that she understands who you are, or that she knows what you think or how you feel. To make that assumption is to ask for terrible pain. She might understand, she might know from time to time, but don’t expect her to understand you one bit more than you understand her.
• The difference between marriage and ceremony……….. real marriage isn’t two people dashing across a bridge in rice and ribbons, its discovery after a lifetime that they’ve build the bridge together, with their own hand.

KAHLIL GIBRAN

+ You were born together, and together you shall be evermore.

+ You shall be together even in the silent memory of God.

+ But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the wind of heavens dance between you.

+ Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

+ And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temples stand apart, and the oak tree and cypress grow not in the each other’s shadow.

THE BIBLE

"Since they are no longer two but one, let no one separate them, for God has joined them together." (Matthew chapter 19 verse 6, NLT)

"... Submit to one another ... husbands must love your wives with the same love Christ showed the church. He gave up his life for her ... In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies." (Ephesians chapter 5 verses 21 - 28, NLT)

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