“Getting married is about the most far-reaching, life-changing thing most people ever do, but they go into it knowing less than they would if they were planning to buy a ferret.”
—Frederica Mathewes-Green, Glory and Honor: Orthodox Christian Resources on Marriage
Category: MARRIAGE
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“Marriage, my dear friends, is a little boat which sails through waves and among rocks. If you lose your attention even for a moment, it will be wrecked.”
— Archimandrite Aimilianos of Simonopetra, Mount Athos, Marriage: The Great Sacrament, A Sermon delivered in the Church of St. Nicholas, Trikala, Greece, 17 January, 1971 -
“Because he loves her, he goes to bed last and gets up first in the morning.”
—Archimandrite Aimilianos of Simonopetra, Mount Athos, Marriage: The Great Sacrament, A Sermon delivered in the Church of St. Nicholas, Trikala, Greece, 17 January, 1971 -
“Just as steel is fashioned in a furnace, just so is a person proved in marriage, in the fire of difficulties.”
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“WHY DO SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE FEAR MARRIAGE? BECAUSE THEY’RE AFRAID OF THE RESPONSIBILITIES. IT’S NOT THAT THERE AREN’T ANY GOOD YOUNG PEOPLE, BUT THEY FEAR RESPONSIBILITY.”
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“If you do not have the strength to undergo the labor, then do not go looking for a woman.”
—Abba Olympius -
“As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?”
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Mizinova wanted marriage, but eventually realised that, for Chekhov, lasting mutual happiness was either something he didn’t believe in or saw as too great a threat to his freedom.
