The document is a collection of quotes about unity in marriage. It discusses how marriage requires sacrifice to unity rather than each other, sharing pain and understanding each other deeply leads to strong bonds, and spiritual union is the ideal that marriage aims for according to Mohandas Gandhi. It also references biblical passages about two becoming one flesh in marriage.

1. Two Become One –
Unity in Marriage
"Where you go I will go, and
where you stay I will stay. Your
people will be my people and
your God my God. Where you die
I will die, and there I will be
buried. May the LORD deal with
me, be it ever so severely, if
anything but death separates you
and me."
- Ruth 1:16-17
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

2. Two Become One –
Unity in 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. Two Become One –
Unity in Marriage
"When we honestly ask ourselves
which person in our lives means
the most to us, we often find that
it is those who, instead of giving
advice, solutions, or cures, have
chosen rather to share our pain
and touch our wounds with a
warm and tender hand."
- Henri Nouwen
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

4. Two Become One –
Unity in Marriage
"When two people are one
in their inmost hearts,
They shatter even the strength of
iron or of bronze.
And when two people understand
each other
in their inmost hearts,
Their words are sweet and strong,
like the fragrance of orchids."
- I Ching
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

5. Two Become One –
Unity in Marriage
"What greater thing is there for
two human souls, than to feel that
they are joined for life - to
strengthen each other in all
labour, to rest on each other in all
sorrow, to minister to each other
in all pain, to be one with each
other in silent unspeakable
memories at the moment of the
last parting?"
- George Eliot
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

6. Two Become One –
Unity in Marriage
"Two pure souls fused into one by
an impassioned love--friends,
counselors--a mutual support and
inspiration to each other amid
life's struggles, must know the
highest human happiness;--this is
marriage; and this is the only
cornerstone of an enduring home."
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

7. Two Become One –
Unity in Marriage
"The ideal that marriage aims at
is that of spiritual union
through the physical. The
human love that it incarnates is
intended to serve as a stepping
stone to divine or universal
love. "
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

8. Two Become One –
Unity in Marriage
"The bonds of matrimony are
like any other bonds - they
mature slowly."
- Peter De Vries
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

9. Two Become One –
Unity in Marriage
"Marriage resembles a pair of
shears, so joined that they
cannot be separated; often
moving in opposite
directions, yet always
punishing anyone who comes
between them."
- Sydney Smith
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

10. Two Become One –
Unity in Marriage
"Love seems the swiftest, but it
is the slowest of all growths. No
man or woman really knows
what perfect love is until they
have been married a quarter of
a century."
- Mark Twain
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

11. Two Become One –
Unity in Marriage
"Love at first sight is easy to
understand; it's when two
people have been looking at
each other for a lifetime that it
becomes a miracle."
- Amy Bloom
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

12. Two Become One –
Unity in Marriage
"It is not a lack of love, but a
lack of friendship that makes
unhappy marriages."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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13. Two Become One –
Unity in Marriage
"It certainly must help us if we
recognize that it is the presence
of the Holy Spirit which creates
a unity which we can never
create."
- Roland Allen
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

14. Two Become One –
Unity in Marriage
"I value unity because I believe
we learn truth from each other
in this process."
- Rowan Williams
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

15. Two Become One –
Unity in Marriage
"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. Two Become One –
Unity in Marriage
"For two people in a marriage to
live together day after day is
unquestionably the one miracle
the Vatican has overlooked."
- Bill Cosby
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

17. Two Become One –
Unity in Marriage
"Even if a unity of faith is not
possible, a unity of love is."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

18. Two Become One –
Unity in Marriage
"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. Two Become One –
Unity in Marriage
"But from the beginning of
creation, ‘God made them male
and female. For this reason a man
shall leave his father and mother
[and be joined to his wife], and
the two shall become one flesh.’
So they are no longer two but one
flesh. Therefore what God has
joined together, no human being
must separate.” "
- Mark 10:6-9
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

20. Two Become One –
Unity in Marriage
"In 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