“Marriage is meant to keep people together not just when things are good, but particularly when they are not. That's why we take marriage vows - not wishes”

“God is more interested in restoring our hearts to Him, than giving us a happy marriage.”

“If you want a happy Christ-centered marriage, you must be centered in Christ!”

“It's all right to have expectations in marriage. Just remember to keep them at the feet of Jesus, not at the feet of your spouse”

“Marriage cannot thrive on left-over attention, it has to get your best effort!”

“Happiness in marriage is a choice you have to make: fight for, protect, pursue. It doesn't happen to you, you make it happen.”

“The way to peace is not love, but Christ.”

“Marriage cannot thrive on left-over attention, it has to get your best effort!”

“When you love, you forgive; when you forgive, you love.”

“A young woman, newly wed, may find herself in the delightful position of wanting to do nothing without the company of her darling husband. She may indeed discover that she spends all her waking hou...”

“The SleepingI have imagined all this:In 1940 my parents were in loveAnd living in the loft on West 10thAbove Mark Rothko who painted cabbage rosesOn their bedroom walls the night they got married.I...”

“Their wedding night was at a little hotel in Paris. There were walk up steps and a lovely view. And all was well for these two.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”