Quotes & Themes – Marriage
Marriage
It is a happy thing when two souls meet who love each other only in order to love God better. (Letters to Persons in Religion, IV, 1)
What God unites cannot be separated. (Letters to Persons in Religion, IV, 15)
If the glue is good, two pieces of fir glued together will cleave so fast to each other that they can be more easily broken in any other place than where they were joined. (Introduction to the Devout Life, Part III, Chapter 38)
Love equalizes lovers. (Treatise on the Love of God, Book 5, Chapter 5)
The state of marriage is one which requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise of mortification. (Letters to Persons in the World, I, 8)
Marriage is an order in which the profession must be made before the novitiate. (The Spirit of St. François de Sales, VII, 10)
As for those who are married, chastity consists not in abstaining absolutely from carnal pleasures, but in restraining themselves in the midst of pleasures. (Introduction to the Devout Life, Part III, Chapter 12)
How agreeable to God are the virtues of a married woman! (Letters to Persons in the World, II, 8)
The well-being of a household depends on the parents’ words, but far more on their behavior. (The Spirit of St. François de Sales, XXII, 10)
The home is not a convent. (The Spirit of St. François de Sales, XXI, 6)
The closest and most fruitful union between husband and wife is that which is effected in holy devotion. (Introduction to the Devout Life, Part III, Chapter 38)
He that does not wish to receive lodgers should take down the signboard from his house. (Introduction to the Devout Life, Part III, Chapter 25)
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