Don’t date anyone you can’t see yourself marrying.

The Biblical manuscripts are quite unequivocally clear on the issue of marriage and its definition. The law of the land may change, however the Holy Writ shall not.”~R. Alan Woods [2013]

The only way love can last a lifetime is if it’s unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.

I smiled ruefully to myself, knowing I had already experienced a far greater and deeper union with this man than that which propriety was so busy guarding against. I had seen and accepted our fate...

Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can’t go through another of those terrible times. And I shan’t recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can’t...

His child. His child with Caroline. Their child. After the things he’d said to her this morning, this would likely be their only child. Would it be a little bespectacled boy who wore his clothes...

The thrill of falling in love is often the thrill of being loved; the thrill of marriage is the thrill of loving someone for the rest of your life. Each day – and year –...

If you’re stressing over happiness, you’re doing it wrong!

To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved...

If you have to be told how you should feel then those feelings are not strong enough to make you feel alive; they become rules that don’t fit your life script. Not every person will...

Two ways to treat a girl: Make her feel as a princess Or Make her feel as a slave.

Never marry something until you’ve established the perfect pizza ratio…The premise is simple. My husband and I knew we were made for each other because we’re a 6:2 ratio, six slices for him and two...

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

No matter how great the initial chemistry is, if your values are on two different pages, the odds of your marriage working decrease significantly.

But they love each other. Isn’t that what love means? That you’re supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what?

A marriage only works if one opens to exactly that which one would never ask for otherwise. Only through rubbing oneself sore and losing oneself is one able to learn about oneself, God, and the...

A Muslim must not hate his wife and if he be displeased with one bad quality in her, then let him be pleased with another that is good.

Motherhood is a blissful chain…I have a mother – my precious gift…I am a mother – the best of my kind!

I married a man who was as much a part of me as my own soul.

While you’re singing something romantic, I can’t get the lyrics to ‘Love and Marriage’ out of my head, and that tune always reminds me of the jingle from Jeopardy.

The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That’s all you need.

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

And your will shall decide your destiny,” he said: “I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of all my possessions.” You play a farce, which I merely laugh at.” I ask you...

A marriage is sensitive, fragile and crucial. Once you mess up with how you handle it, it will shatter

Let’s start with this statistic: You are delicious. Be brave, my sweet. I know you can get lonely. I know you can crave companionship and sex and love so badly that it physically hurts. But...

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that doesn’t mean she can’t have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones

Give me my heart; I am killing my existence without it.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what...

I want to get married, but first I’ll have to get a divorce.

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the “hour” of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving...

Compromising is the only path that all happy couples travel on.

Two former students of mine are getting married. Congrats, grandpa and grandpa!

One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.

Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known...

Families that feel together, heal together.

Done.

You know what getting married is? It’s agreeing to taking this person who right now is at the top of his form, full of hopes and ideas, feeling good, looking good, wildly interested in you...

Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he’s a baby.

We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.

What kind of wedding would you like?” he asked, and stole another kiss before she could reply.”The kind that turns you into my husband.” She touched the firm line of his mouth with her fingers....

She was the curator of her marriage, collector of swift quotes and unremarked-upon sensations.

Your positive impact on the generations to come will be directly related to the ministry you have in that little place called home.

When you look back and realize there is no way you would have had a better life with another person, that’s when the relationship or marriage becomes worth it.

As long as you have goals to accomplish in this life, you will not truly be complete.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

The goal of marriage is not happiness, it is holiness…There is no mechanism whereby God can sanctify a person more than having them live in close proximity to another imperfect person….Our fundamental problem is that...

I suppose he’s a bit young,” he said.

Longed for him. Got him. Shit.

Deb and I were married on a snowy night – wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at us as we left the lighted church…