If a marriage lacks intimacy,
the true joys of marriage aren't able to be reached.
Not exact matches
The
joy of the gospel
of marriage springs from charity: 2 the same charity that compels bishops3 to faithfully proclaim the good news
of marriage revealed in Christ; the same charity that is inseparable from the Truth, who frees the human person and reveals to him what it means to be human.4 Only in Jesus does every human being discover what it means to be truly human, to be made for God and to live in relationship with God, to have
true happiness.
For example, the person who wants to experience sex before
marriage can no longer experience the
joy of a real marital donation in its fullness: giving oneself totally and for the first time — that is, in a
true virginal gift — and receiving the same gift from one's spouse.
It takes a terrible slaughter and the unexpected
joys of marriage for Uhtred to discover his
true allegiance — and to rise to his greatest challenge.
Mark Twain once wrote that «comparison is the death
of joy,» and I don't think this is ever more
true than in
marriage.