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George Washington
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- Marriage
- Misery
I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one’s life, the foundation of happiness or misery.
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Frederick William Robertson
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- Sex
- Marriage
Marriage is not a union, merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both, by supplementing their deficiencies with the...
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Richard Pryor
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Marriage is tough because you have to deal with feelings and lawyers.
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Samuel Johnson
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Once described a second marriage as the “triumph of hope over experience
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What is Marriage For?
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John Mark Comer
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One day we were out running errands. The radio in my car was playing in the background, and between songs there was an advertisement for an online dating service. The spokesman-doctor-expert guy was d...
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Cohabitation and the Definitely Maybe Relationship
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Jonathan Grant
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The tension between autonomy and intimacy is most clearly evidenced in the trend toward cohabitation. Today, between 50 and 70 percent of American couples are cohabiting before or instead of marrying....
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C. S. Lewis
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Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go... But, of course, ceasing to be "in love" need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense — love ...
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Married Couples have the Most Sex
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Tara Parker-Pope
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- Sex
- Marriage
It is a common belief that the surest way to end your sex life is to get married. But the reality is far more complicated. While it’s true that for many couples, sexual excitement fades in marriage, o...
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What’s Wrong about the 50% Divorce Statistic
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Tara Parker-Pope
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- Marriage
- Divorce
For years we’ve all heard the grim statistic claiming that 50 percent of marriages will end in divorce, but that bleak prognosis doesn’t apply to most couples getting married today or even most of tho...
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Prayer for Families
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Almighty God, our heavenly Father, who who creates families for our belonging: We ask for your continual care for the homes in which your people live. Keep them from all bitterness, arrogance, and the...
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A Romance for the Ages
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The Pastor's Workshop
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The marriage of Queen Victoria and Albert (otherwise known as Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel — quite a mouthful!) was one for the ages. Their love and devotion to each other was remarkable, ...
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“Divorce? Never, But Murder, Often”
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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Song of Solomon 8:6-7, Ephesians 4:2-3, Colossians 3:13-14, Proverbs 17:9, Ecclesiastes 4:9-10, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
The British actress Sybil Thorndike was married to Sir Lewis Casson another prolific actor. Their marriage was rather tumultuous at times, and after his death, she was once asked, “Did you ever think ...
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A Dying Man’s Last Words
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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A man was dying and he called his wife to his bedside. He affectionately told her he loved her but he also had to confess something to her. “I haven’t been 100% faithful to you in our marriage. I’m so...
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You Can’t Completely Satisfy Me and that’s Okay
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Christopher West
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Years ago Wendy and I were out to dinner and she observed that something was different about our marriage in recent years, something good. She asked me if I had any insight into what it was. After ref...
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Make a List
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Max Lucado
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- Adultery
- Marriage
Years ago, a friend gave me this counsel: “Make a list of all the lives you would affect by your sexual immorality.” I did. Every so often I reread it. “Denalyn. My three daughters. My son-in-law. My ...
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Lord of Hope and God of all that’s new—Father
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Richard Herman
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Romans 12:12, Colossians 3:14, 1 Peter 3:8, Ephesians 4:2-3, Psalm 136:1
Lord of Hope and God of all that’s new—Father, Son and Holy Spirit: We’re filled with wonder, gratitude, and joy inspired by the gifts of new life You freely give us. There’s the joy and wonder of eve...
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The Echo of an Argument
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John Ortberg
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- Anger
- Marriage
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2 Corinthians 5:18, Psalm 34:18, Romans 12:18, James 1:19-20, Proverbs 15:1, Matthew 6:14-15, Colossians 3:13
Philip Yancey writes of a friend whose marriage was choked by hostility. One night the friend reached the breaking point: “I hate you!” he screamed at his wife. “I won’t take it any more. I’ve had eno...
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Father: Thank You for always being
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Richard Herman
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Psalm 34:14, Luke 15:20, Hebrews 4:14, Romans 6:4, Acts 1:8, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Psalm 25:4-5, Matthew 11:28-30, Isaiah 41:10, John 14:13, James 1:5, 2 Corinthians 9:8, Habakkuk 3:2, Isaiah 6:8, Matthew 28:19-20
Father: Thank You for always being ready to welcome us and listen to us. Thank You for sending Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Savior: born like us, experiencing all that we experience yet sinless, who d...
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God–our Father, Lord and indwelling
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Richard Herman
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Philippians 4:6-7, 1 Timothy 2:1-2, Psalm 133:1, 2 Corinthians 9:13-14, Matthew 28:19-20
God–our Father, Lord and indwelling Spirit of grace and power: Thank you for hearing us when we pray whether in songs of rejoicing or through tears of sorrow. Thank you for gifts–for the gifts of musi...
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Heavenly Father: You know all about us
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Revelation 21:4, 2 Corinthians 1:3-4, Jeremiah 17:14, James 5:15-16, Romans 8:28
Heavenly Father: You know all about us – our weakness, our failing, our sin; And you still love us enough to give your Son to redeem us. Hear the cries of our hearts today. There’s someone for who...
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Christopher West
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- Sex
- Marriage
Marital love is a reflection of how God loves. It is free, total, faithful and fruitful.
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What Attracts us to Our Spouse Sometimes Also Can Drive Us Nuts
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Karen Ehman
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- Marriage
- Speech
My husband says my ability to talk is what first attracted him to me. He loved how I could work a room, making the shy ones feel included. I could converse with the college president and yuck it up wi...
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Prayer for Parents
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Almighty God, giver of life and love, bless N. and N. Grant them wisdom and devotion in the ordering of their common life, that each may be to the other a strength in need, a counselor in perplexi...
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Jeff Foxworthy
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- Humor
- Marriage
I married my wife for her looks, but not the kind she’s giving me lately.
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Peter Jackson
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Arwen to Aragorn: "I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone."
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Was I Supposed to Agonize Over Commitment?
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Genesis 2:18, Proverbs 18:22, 1 Corinthians 7:2, Proverbs 19:14
Too many young guys are waiting for writing in the sky before they make a relational commitment. It doesn’t have to be that complicated. My grandpa DeYoung met my grandma on his paper route. Then they...
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Albert Einstein
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- Divorce
- Marriage
What I admired most in him as a human being is that he managed to live for so many years not only in peace but also in lasting harmony with a woman—an undertaking in which I twice failed rather misera...
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Benjamin Tillett
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God help the man who won’t marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.
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Bob Goff
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None of us complete each other, but we can add a few words to the lives of the people around us to help them understand God’s bigger plan for all of us.
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Brian Jennings
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Neither truth nor peace can create wholeness without the other. A husband’s complaints against his wife may be true. A wife’s complaints against her husband may be true. If they only care about these ...