The document contains quotes from various sources about marriage. It emphasizes that marriage is a lifelong commitment that requires work, compromise, faithfulness and sacrifice from both partners. Maintaining a successful marriage depends on dealing with incompatibility, choosing a partner carefully, forgiving each other, and putting the relationship above individual wants.

1. Introduction
"You will reciprocally promise
love, loyalty and matrimonial
honesty. We only want for you
this day that these words
constitute the principle of your
entire life and that with the help
of divine grace you will observe
these solemn vows that
today, before God, you
formulate."
- Pope John Paul II
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

2. Introduction
"When you make a commitment
to a relationship, you invest
your attention and energy in it
more profoundly because you
now experience ownership of
that relationship."
- Barbara de Angelis
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

3. Introduction
"What counts in making a
happy marriage is not so much
how compatible you are, but
how you deal with
incompatibility."
- Leo Tolstoy
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

4. Introduction
"To maintain a joyful family
requires much from both the
parents and the children. Each
member of the family has to
become, in a special way, the
servant of the others."
- Pope John Paul II
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

5. Introduction
"The married are those who
have taken the terrible risk of
intimacy and, having taken
it, know life without intimacy
to be impossible."
- Carolyn Heilbrun
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

6. Introduction
"The love between husband
and wife should mirror the love
of Christ for the Church, a love
that is complete, unconditional,
self-sacrificing, unending,
nourishing, and cherishing."
- Lucas Pollice
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

7. Introduction
"My whole working philosophy
is that the only stable
happiness for mankind is that it
shall live married in blessed
union to woman-kind -
intimacy, physical and
psychical between a man and
his wife."
- David Herbert Lawrence
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

8. Introduction
GROUP CHALLENGE:
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Encounter Scavenger Hunt" on
page 1 in your weekend
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A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

9. Introduction
"Marriage has a unique place
because it speaks of an absolute
faithfulness, a covenant between
radically different persons, male
and female; and so it echoes the
absolute covenant of God with his
chosen, a covenant between
radically different partners."
- Rowan D. Williams
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

10. Introduction
"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

11. Introduction
"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

12. Introduction
"Jesus came to redeem
humanity through love, and
that through the sacrament of
Matrimony humanity is
enriched in an extraordinary
way."
- Nguyen Van Thuan
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

13. Introduction
"In a successful marriage, there
is no such thing as one's way.
There is only the way of
both, only the
bumpy, dusty, difficult, but
always mutual path."
- Phyllis McGinley
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

14. Introduction
"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

15. Introduction
"Happy and thrice happy are
those who enjoy an
uninterrupted union, and
whose love, unbroken by any
sour complaints, shall not
dissolve until the last day of
their existence."
- Horace
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

16. Introduction
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A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

17. Introduction
"Choose your life's mate
carefully. From this one
decision will come 90 percent of
all your happiness or misery."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

18. Introduction
"Chains do not hold a marriage
together. It is threads, hundreds
of tiny threads which sew
people together through the
years. That is what makes a
marriage last --more than
passion or even sex!"
- Simone Signoret
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

19. Introduction
"As the family goes, so goes the
nation and so goes the whole
world in which we live."
- Pope John Paul II
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

20. Introduction
"Almost no one is foolish
enough to imagine that he
automatically deserves great
success in any field of activity;
yet almost everyone believes
that he automatically deserves
success in marriage."
- Sydney J. Harris
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

21. Introduction
"A marriage based on mutual
esteem, built up by lasting
affection, and crowned with
Heaven's blessing, is the fair
remnant left us on earth of the
institutions of Paradise."
- S. Walker
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

22. Introduction
"A happy marriage is the union
of two good forgivers."
- Ruth Bell Graham
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime