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Two Become One – Unity in Marriage
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me."
- Ruth 1:16-17
Two Become One – Unity in Marriage
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship."
- Joseph Campbell
Two Become One – Unity in Marriage
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."
- Henri Nouwen
Two Become One – Unity in Marriage
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"When two people are onein their inmost hearts,They shatter even the strength of iron or of bronze.And when two people understand each otherin their inmost hearts,Their words are sweet and strong,like the fragrance of orchids."
- I Ching
Two Become One – Unity in Marriage
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?"
- George Eliot
Two Become One – Unity in Marriage
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love--friends, counselors--a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must know the highest human happiness;--this is marriage; and this is the only cornerstone of an enduring home."
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Two Become One – Unity in Marriage
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to divine or universal love. "
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
Two Become One – Unity in Marriage
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly."
- Peter De Vries
Two Become One – Unity in Marriage
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them."
- Sydney Smith
Two Become One – Unity in Marriage
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century."
- Mark Twain
Two Become One – Unity in Marriage
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle."
- Amy Bloom
Two Become One – Unity in Marriage
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Two Become One – Unity in Marriage
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"It certainly must help us if we recognize that it is the presence of the Holy Spirit which creates a unity which we can never create."
- Roland Allen
Two Become One – Unity in Marriage
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process."
- Rowan Williams
Two Become One – Unity in Marriage
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence."
- Horace
Two Become One – Unity in Marriage
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked."
- Bill Cosby
Two Become One – Unity in Marriage
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
Two Become One – Unity in Marriage
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last --more than passion or even sex!"
- Simone Signoret
Two Become One – Unity in Marriage
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother [and be joined to his wife], and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate.” "
- Mark 10:6-9
Two Become One – Unity in Marriage
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"In successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path."
- Phyllis McGinley
