"In a sense every wedding is a royal wedding with the bride and the groom as king and queen of creation, making a new life together so that life can flow through them into the future.
A spiritual life grows as love finds its centre beyond ourselves. Faithful and committed relationships offer a door into the mystery of spiritual life in which we discover this; the more we give of self, the richer we become in soul; the more we go beyond ourselves in love, the more we become our true selves and our spiritual beauty is more fully revealed.
We shall not be converted to the promise of the future by more knowledge, but rather by an increase of loving wisdom and reverence, for life, for the earth and for one another.
There must be no coercion if the Spirit is to flow.
As the reality of God has faded from so many lives, there has been a corresponding inflation of expectations that personal relations alone will supply meaning and happiness in life. We are all incomplete: we all need the love which is secure."
(The first and last paragraphs are close to my heart. The former reaffirms the importance of chastity before marriage while the latter reinforces the ultimate nature of God's love.)
