<blockquote>What if God designed marriage to make us holy more than to make us happy?

<cite><a href="http://www.garythomas.com/books/sacred-marriage/">Gary Thomas, 2015</a></cite></blockquote>
<blockquote>What makes marriage worth having is that you, your spouse, and those around you see more of God and his love for us in Jesus.

<cite><a href="http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/when-the-not-yet-married-meet-dating-to-display-jesus">Marshall Segal, 2013</a></cite></blockquote><blockquote>Every person who marries is a sinner, so the search for a spouse isn’t a pursuit of perfection, but a mutually flawed pursuit of Jesus.

<cite><a href="http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/when-the-not-yet-married-meet-dating-to-display-jesus">Marshall Segal, 2013</a></cite></blockquote>
<blockquote>In the marriage relationship, men wear a crown, but it is first and foremost one of thorns.

<cite><a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Four-Loves-C-S-Lewis/dp/0156329301">C.S. Lewis, 1971</a></cite></blockquote>
<blockquote>In Jesus - the way, the truth, and the life - God has shown us the paths of life and happiness, and it's not the path between the pews at your future wedding. It’s the scandalous marriage of a holy God to his chosen, sinful, and forgiven bride, the church. Jesus lived, died, and rose again for our joy - even in singleness. He said, "These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full" (John 15:11).

<cite><a href="http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/nine-lies-in-the-not-yet-married-life">Marshall Segal, 2014</a></cite></blockquote>
<blockquote>Perhaps that's another reason true intimacy is so frightening. It's the one thing we all want, and must give up control to get.

<cite><a href="https://bit.ly/2qS873W">Donald Miller, 2015</a></cite></blockquote>
<blockquote>A woman, though, can rob your manhood and reduce you to a boy at the drop of a word.

<cite><a href="https://bit.ly/2rYpmEM">Donald Miller, 2015</a></cite></blockquote>