Wise thoughts about MARRIAGE
Intimacy is the mystical bond of friendship, commitment and understanding.
A joyful marriage is a bit of heaven on earth.
Marriage must exemplify friendship's highest ideal, or else it will be a failure.
"Family" was God's idea, and He does not make mistakes.
When Adam was lonely, God created for him not ten friends, but one wife.
Everyone has patience. Successful people learn to use it.
Forgiveness is giving love when there is no reason to...
Love makes a house a home.
Love is what you've been through with somebody.
Love is giving more and never keeping score.
A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.
You have a lifetime to enjoy one another. Don't waste a day of it.
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from his neck saying: "Make me feel important!"
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too late!
Making marriage work is like operating a farm. You have to start all over again each morning.
You keep a life time commitment by keeping promises day by day.
It is our uniqueness that gives freshness and vitality to a relationship.
Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by the wrong tone of voice.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Loving can cost a lot, but not loving always costs more.
The most impressive example of tolerance is a golden wedding anniversary.
How to be a happily married couple can never really be taught, only learned.
Sharing the housework makes it easier to share the love.
Before criticizing your wife's faults, you must remember it may have been these very defects which prevented her from getting a better husband than the one she married ;).
from "God's Little Instruction Book for Couples", 1995, Honor Books, Inc.