romantic love on Pilgrimage

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.

“You are my greatest adventure.”

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...

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

“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...

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.

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.

"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."

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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

Love is hunting for bigger game than happiness.

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

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 ...

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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...

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

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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