Saturday, February 16, 2013

Preparing for Marriage

M. Scott Peck said, "One result of the mysterious nature of love is that no one has ever, to mu knowledge, arrived at a truly satisfactory definition of love. In an effort to explain it, therefore, love has been divided into various categories: eros, philia, agape; perfect love and imperfect love, and so on. I am presuming, however, to give you a single definition of love, again with the awareness that it is likely to be in some way or ways inadequate. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth." (The Road Less Travelled, 1978, p. 81)

"Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far-reaching effects, for it has to do not only with immediate happiness, but eternal joy as well. It affects not only the two people involved, but their families and particularly their children and their children's children down through the many generations." (Spencer W. Kimball, 1976, Marriage and Divorce, 2)

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