If thou must love me
let it be for naught Except for love’s sake only. Do not say, ‘I love her for her smile – her look – her way Of speaking gently,- for a trick of thought That falls…
Readings
In love made visible
In love are we made visible As in a magic bath are unpeeled to the sharp pit so long concealed With love’s alertness we recognize the soundless whimper of the soul…
Jeremiah 31:31-34
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I…
Letters
Marriage is in many ways a simplification of life, and it naturally combines the strengths and wills of two young people so that, together, they seem to reach…
Love
is a friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad. It settles for less…
LOVE
I love you, Not only for what you are, But for what I am When I am with you. I love you, Not only for what You have made of yourself, But for what You are making of…
Love is a great thing
yea, a great and thorough good, By itself it makes that is heavy light; And it bears evenly all that is uneven. It carries a burden which is no burden; it will not…
Love lives
beyond The tomb, the earth, which fades like dew. I love the fond, The faithful, and the true Love lives in sleep, The happiness of healthy dreams Eve’s dews may…
Love's philosophy
by Percy Bysshe Shelley The fountains mingle with the river, And the rivers with the ocean; The winds of heaven mix forever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the…
Mark 10:6-9
From the beginning of creation God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall be one…
Marriage
The die is cast, come weal, come woe, Two lives are joined together, For better or for worse, the link Which naught but death can sever. The die is cast, come…
Marriage joins two people in the circle of its love
Marriage is a commitment to life, the best that two people can find and bring out in each other. It offers opportunities for sharing and growth that no other…
My love
When I met you, I had no idea how much my life was about to be changed… but then, how could I have known? A love like ours happens once in a lifetime. You were a…
My true love
hath my heart and I have his, By just exchange one for another given I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss, There never was a better bargain driven My true love…
Never marry but for love
but see that thou lovest what is lovely. If love be not the chiefest motive, thou wilt soon grow weary of a married state and stray from thy promise, to search out…
On love
Love is a mighty power, a great and complete good. Love alone lightens every burden, and makes rough places smooth. It bears every hardship as though it were…
On marriage
From The Prophet ~ By Kahlil Gibran ~ You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter…
Perfect love
Everyone longs to give themselves completely to someone. To have a deep soul relationship with another, to be loved thoroughly and exclusively. But God to the…
Psalm 128:1-4
Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways. For thou shalt eat the labor of thine hands; happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with…
She walks in Beauty
like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow’d to that tender light…
somewhere i have never travelled
gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too…
Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no! It…
Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate… When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st So long as men can breathe or eyes can…
Sonnet cxvi
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love, Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. Oh, no! it…
Sonnet light
SUDDEN LIGHT ~ By Dante Gabriel Rossetti ~ I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell; I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The…
Sonnet lxix
Maybe nothingness is to be without your presence, without you moving, slicing the noon like a blue flower, without you walking later through the fog and the…
Sound of Silence
Here in the space between us and the world lies human meaning. Into the vast uncertainty we call. The echoes make our music, sharp equations which can hold the…
Speak to us of Love
From The Prophet ~ By Kahlil Gilbran ~ Then said Almitra, Speak to us of Love. And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon…
The art of marriage
~ Author Wilferd A. Peterson ~The little things are the big things. It is never being too old to hold hands. It is remembering to say “I love you” at least once a…
The Bridge Across Forever
Excerpt from The Bridge Across Forever ~ Richard Bach ~ A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough…