There are two things we cannot do alone. One is to be married and the other is to be a Christian.

Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious.

Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject's vitality.

Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single.

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

The really important thing in life is not the avoidance of mistakes, but the obedience of faith. By obedience, the man is led step by step to correct his errors, whereas nothing will ever happen to him if he doesn't get going.

That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.