1. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"You can give without
loving, but you can never love
without giving."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

2. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"When you make a sacrifice in
marriage, you're sacrificing not
to each other but to unity in a
relationship."
- Joseph Campbell
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

3. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"When a man spends his time
giving his wife criticism and
advice instead of
compliments, he forgets that it
was not his good judgment, but
his charming manners, that
won her heart."
- Helen Rowland
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

4. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"There's a great joy in my
giving. It's thrilling. It's
exhilarating. It's important to
be a part of sharing. It is my
love. It is my joy."
- W. Clement Stone
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

5. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"The married should not forget
that to speak of love begets
love."
- Blaise Pascal
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

6. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"The marriage covenant reflects
God’s love as we receive it,
absorb it, and give it away.
Through covenant we discover
the avenues of true love and
growth. "
- J. Johnston
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

7. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"The love between husband
and wife should mirror the love
of Christ for the Church, a love
that is
complete, unconditional, self-
sacrificing, unending, nourishi
ng, and cherishing."
- Lucas Pollice
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

8. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"The happiness of married life
depends upon making small
sacrifices with readiness and
cheerfulness. "
- Selden
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

9. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"The giving of love is an
education in itself."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

10. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"Since you get more joy out of
giving joy to others, you should
put a good deal of thought into
the happiness that you are able
to give."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

11. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"No one who has ever brought
up a child can doubt for a
moment that love is literally the
life-giving fluid of human
existence"
- Smiley Blanton
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

12. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"Marriage is not just spiritual
communion, it is also
remembering to take out the
trash."
- Joyce Brothers
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

13. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"Marriage consists of our first
entering into a covenant
relationship with Christ and
then with each other"
- Marlin K. Jensen
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

14. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"Love is not a feeling of
happiness. Love is a
willingness to sacrifice."
- Michael Novak
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

15. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"Love is a decision, it is a
judgment, it is a promise. If
love were only a feeling, there
would be no basis for the
promise to love each other
forever. "
- Erich Fromm
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

16. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"Love grows by giving. The
love we give away is the only
love we keep. The only way to
retain love is to give it away."
- Elbert Hubbard
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

17. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"Love always involves
responsibility, and love always
involves sacrifice."
- William Barclay
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

18. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"Kindness in words creates
confidence. Kindness in
thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates
love."
- Lao Tzu
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

19. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"Happy marriages begin when
we marry the ones we love, and
they blossom when we love the
ones we marry."
- Tom Mullen
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

20. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"Every man must decide
whether he will walk in the
light of creative altruism or in
the darkness of destructive
selfishness."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

21. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"A successful marriage is an
edifice that must be rebuilt
every day."
- Andre Maurois
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

22. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"A successful marriage is an
edifice that must be rebuilt
every day."
- Andre Maurois
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

23. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"You can never be happily
married to another until you get a
divorce from yourself. Successful
marriage demands a certain death
to self. A happy marriage is based
on discovery. For each delights in
the differences in the other-and
goes on learning all life long."
- Jerry McCant
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

24. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"For one human being to love
another; that is perhaps the most
difficult of all our tasks, the
ultimate, the last test and
proof, the work for which all
other work is but preparation."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

25. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"Stirring the oatmeal is a
humble act... it represents a
willingness to find meaning in
the simple unromantic tasks;
earning a living, living within a
budget, putting out the
garbage."
- Robert A. Johnson
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

26. Creating a Life-Giving Marriage
"Love means to commit oneself
without guarantee, to give
oneself completely in the hope
that our love will produce love
in the loved person. Love is an
act of faith, and whoever is of
little faith is also of little love."
- Erick Fromm
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime