romantic love on Devotion

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, ...

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, ...

To abide in love means to have open eyes, to be able to see something that only a few see, namely, the outstretched, begging hands of the others who are along the way, and now not be able to do anythi...

What we choose to love is very important for what we love leads our eyes, ears, and hearts on a pilgrimage that shapes the texture of our lives.

“My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the...

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

During the time of Oliver Cromwel ascendancy in England, a young soldier faced execution as the curfew bell was set to toll. Desperate to save him, the soldier's beloved approached Cromwell, plead...

Where love is, there is the eye.

George Matheson was just entering the bewildering teenage years when doctors informed him he was going blind. Undeterred, he pressed on with his education and graduated from the University of Glasgow ...

"We are one/One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself."

Adam was called by God to take care of Eden. But it was too much work for one man. Eden was massive. Adam was incapable of gardening the whole thing. He needed help.  That’s why God created Eve. Go...

Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely. But Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's love so wishes our joy that it is ruthless a...

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time, and…when the torch is put to it, that which is within you must burst into blaze...

Love . . . is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Pray less that God would show you who is the right husband or wife and pray more to be the right kind of husband or wife.

There is the great lesson of “Beauty and the Beast”; that a thing must be loved before it is loveable.

A true relationship is two unperfect people refusing to give up on each other.

No man has ever lived that had enough of children’s gratitude and women’s love.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

“And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”

The problem with the myth of “the one” is that it assumes that affection is the glue that holds the marriage together, when really it is your commitment to marriage that safeguards the affection. So d...

Love is hunting for bigger game than happiness.

Love is an agreement on the part of two people to overestimate each other.

"To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all."

“You are my greatest adventure.”

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."

[Romantic] Love may not be literally blind, but it does seem to be literally incapable of reason and the levels of appropriate negativity necessary for realism.