"Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be most devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves." - Romans 12:9-10

"Now abide by faith, hope, love, these three' but the greatest of these is love."  1 Corinthians 13:13

“There is no fear in love. But perfect love casts out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because He first loved us.”  1 John 4:18-19

Jesus said "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind." This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'  Matthew 22:37-39

"For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and the teo shall become one flesh,; So they are no longer two but one flesh.  Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must seperate."  Mark 10:7-9

We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as is only fitting, because your faith is greatly enlarged, and the love of each one of you toward one another grows ever greater; 2 Thessalonians 1:3

May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.    Jude 1:2

“With all humility and gentleness, with patience,  bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace."  - Ephesians 4:2-3

"The man said, "This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; This one shall be called 'woman' for out of man this one has been taken."  That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body."  Genesis 2:23-24

"I compare you, my love, to a mare among Pharoah's chariots.  Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels."  Song of Solomon 1:9-10

"Hatred stires up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs." Proverbs 10:12

"Set me as a seal upon your heart as a seal upon your arm; For Love is strong as Death, longing is fierce as Sheol.  It's arrows are arrows of fire, flames of the divine.  Deep waters cannot quench love, nor rivers sweep it away.  Were one to offer all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly despised." Song of Solomon 8:6-7

"You are altogether beautiful, my darling, And there is no blemish in you."  Song of Solomon 4:7

"A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life." Proverbs 31:10-12

Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God and walk in all His ways and keep His commandments and hold fast to Him and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.    Joshua 22:5

The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, But He loves one who pursues righteousness.  Proverbs 15:9

Very few people ever state properly the strong argument in favour of marrying for love or against marrying for money. The argument is not that all lovers are heroes and heroines, nor is it that all dukes are profligates or all millionaires cads. The argument is this, that the differences between a man and a woman are at the best so obstinate and exasperating that they practically cannot be got over unless there is an atmosphere of exaggerated tenderness and mutual interest. To put the matter in one metaphor, the sexes are two stubborn pieces of iron; if they are to be welded together, it must be while they are red-hot. Every woman has to find out that her husband is a selfish beast, because every man is a selfish beast by the standard of a woman.  But let her find out the beast while they are both still in the story of "Beauty and the Beast." Every man has to find out that his wife is cross—that is to say, sensitive to the point of madness: for every woman is mad by the masculine standard. But let him find out that she is mad while her madness is more worth considering than anyone else's sanity.   —G.K. Chesterton, The Common Man

The revolt against vows has been carried in our day even to the extent of a revolt against the typical vow of marriage. It is most amusing to listen to the opponents of marriage on this subject.

They appear to imagine that the ideal of constancy was a yoke mysteriously imposed on mankind by the devil, instead of being, as it is, a yoke consistently imposed by all lovers on themselves. 

They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words—’free-love’—as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free. It is the nature of love to bind itself, and the institution of marriage merely paid the average man the compliment of taking him at his word.

Modern sages offer to the lover, with an ill-flavoured grin, the largest liberties and the fullest irresponsibility; but they do not respect him as the old Church respected him; they do not write his oath upon the heavens, as the record of his highest moment.

They give him every liberty except the liberty to sell his liberty, which is the only one that he wants

-The Defendant - GK Chesterton

“I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.” - GK Chesterton

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. - JRR Tolkien

“We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge…” - Aldous Huxley