On Matrimony and the Natural Order
“There is no earthly glory that compares to the weight of this mystery: the greatest blessing God can bestow upon a woman is to entrust her with an eternal soul. The womb that shelters life is touched by the very breath of the Creator, and she who bears a child becomes, forever, the first Sacred dwelling of one whom Heaven already calls by name.”
— E. S. von Hertwig, May 7, 2026
“When a woman veils her body in modest clothing, she is not hiding herself from men. She is revealing her dignity to them.”
— Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
“When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.”
— Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
“The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.”
— G. K. Chesterton
“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only – and that is to support the ultimate career.”
— C. S. Lewis
“Marriage is for men and not boys. Boys who get married do not become men; they destroy women.”
— Mark Driscoll
“Every man is incomplete, and so is the woman. But two incomplete things can never make a perfect thing, any more than half an apple and half an onion can make an ‘apple-onion’. Man is more incomplete than woman, because he seeks wealth and power—aspects not within the feminine horizon. Thus, marriage is the work of two imperfect artisans, building together the house of their dreams. They hammer out their discords until they harmonize and patch their cracks with mercy. Then love becomes something that never diminishes the delicacy of the woman and always increases the consideration of the man.”
— Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
“Human love is a spark from the great flame of Eternity. The happiness that emanates from the union of two beings in one flesh is the prelude to that greater communion of two souls in one.”
— Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
“It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.”
— Venerable Fulton J. Sheen (From Three to Get Married)