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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...

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

They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words—“free-love”—as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free. It is the nature of love to bind itself, and...

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

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

I wish for you good health in each other’s arms.

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

When the two people who thus discover that they are on the same secret road are of different sexes, the friendship which arises between them will very easily pass – may pass in the first half hour – i...

Love is hunting for bigger game than happiness.

"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."

If it is right, it happens—the main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Where love is, there is the eye.

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

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...

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.

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...

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

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

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

[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.

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

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

“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...

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...

“You are my greatest adventure.”

“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 word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

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...