In life loyalty is something that you earn and Doreen had more than earned my loyalty over the years. But marriage is a rogue state with its own rules, and one of them is pledging your loyalty to somebody before you can be fully sure that they deserv...
You can only afford to be generous if you actually have some money in the bank to give. In the same way, if your only source of love and meaning is your spouse, then anytime he or she fails you, it will not just cause grief but a psychological catacl...
The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'...
Only one thing to it: a strong stomach. The guts to gladhand a man you're going to stab in the back; pledge allegiance to principles you stomp on every day; righteously denounce some despot in the press and sell him arms under the table. The talent t...
The public talk -- and injuriously! -- Well! are you ignorant of the little importance of such talk? -- The public speak! -- It is not the world, it is only the despicable part of it -- only the ill-natured, who upon the smallest evidence pass rash j...
There’s a beautiful poem at the beginning of a collection of books we call the Bible. In that poem, it is written: "Then God said, ‘Let us make man.’” God then recognized that it was not good for man to be alone. We can all agree on that one,...
Faithfulness in Christian marriage entails that: great mortification. For a Christian man there is no escape. Marriage may help to sanctify and direct to its proper object his sexual desires; its grace may help him in the struggle; but the struggle r...
Michael Dorsey: You should have seen the look on her face when she thought I was a lesbian. George Fields: "Lesbian"? You just said gay. Michael Dorsey: No, no, no - SANDY thinks I'm gay, JULIE thinks I'm a lesbian. George Fields: I thought Dorothy w...
I built my marriage brick by brick. And I destroyed it blanket by blanket.
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Being laughed at is excellent preparation for marriage.
The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce.
Marriage is a legal contract -- it's not a sacred thing.
I’m a combat specialist and marriage counselor.
John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.
Marriage can be expensive, and if I lose millions then it'll be the best millions I've spent.
I don't like being a voyeur, looking into other people's marriages.
Marriage is not difficult...It's dealing with the other person that makes it difficult....
For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.
