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By Michael Leach - I Like Being Married: Treasured Traditions, Rituals and Stories (Reprint) (2004-05-05) [Paperback]
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January 20, 2012
2.5 stars
Good overall view on marriage, what it entails and what it truly is. Some of the sources are a bit sketchy.
Favorite quotes:
Love alone is capable of uniting living things in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. ~ Pierre de Chardin
They whom we love and lose are no longer where they were before. They are now wherever we are. ~ St. John Chrysostom
Squinching by Phyllis A. Tickle (Marriage in particular and general)
Is there anything more sterling than fidelity, anything more uniquely and gloriously human than a promise made and kept? Within in a universe of uncertainty, of stars searing into being and dying, (etc.), within the uncertainties and dangers of life that have always been acknowledged - death and sickness, natural disasters, human beings exert their ability to create something secure, a stable, dependable place of faith and love, a place where the strength to carry out constructive acts of generosity and compassion is engendered. ~ Patiann Roger
Good overall view on marriage, what it entails and what it truly is. Some of the sources are a bit sketchy.
Favorite quotes:
Love alone is capable of uniting living things in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. ~ Pierre de Chardin
They whom we love and lose are no longer where they were before. They are now wherever we are. ~ St. John Chrysostom
Squinching by Phyllis A. Tickle (Marriage in particular and general)
Is there anything more sterling than fidelity, anything more uniquely and gloriously human than a promise made and kept? Within in a universe of uncertainty, of stars searing into being and dying, (etc.), within the uncertainties and dangers of life that have always been acknowledged - death and sickness, natural disasters, human beings exert their ability to create something secure, a stable, dependable place of faith and love, a place where the strength to carry out constructive acts of generosity and compassion is engendered. ~ Patiann Roger
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October 1, 2010
Lots of quotes and short stories about marriage from married people. Nothing earth-shattering, but pleasant read nonetheless.
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