marriage

"If culture moves further and further away from valuing marriage, women will experience, by far, the worst of it, having kids without fathers. Marriage changes men substantially on how they behave and think about women and children. Cohabitation does not change that. Young men earn more and achieve more and are more willing to sacrifice when they marry." --Scott Stanley, codirector of the Center for Marital and Family Studies at Denver University - The Independent (Feb 12-18, 2004)
"If your own marriage has grown stale, look in the mirror and ask God how he can use it to transform the person looking back at you. If you’ve let bitterness seize your heart, stop praying for your spouse to change and ask God to change you. Most marriages can survive temporarily 'falling out of love.' But you’re headed for disaster if you ever let yourself fall out of repentance." - Gary Thomas, Sacred Marriage (Zondervan, 2000)