Note: The word "God" is used throughout, but you may choose to substitute whichever term works for you, such as "Divine Being," "Higher Power," or terms specific to your religious faith.
Marriage
Family
Friendship, Dating, and Courting
Character
Compatibility
Chastity
Abstinence
Marriage is a divine institution, incorporating the physical and spiritual union of the bodies, minds, hearts, and souls of a man and a woman. It is a legal, binding, and sacred commitment founded on friendship and well-developed character qualities. The couple makes whatever pledges are appropriate for their faith pathway. Within this divine institution, parents conceive, nurture, and educate children with love. Marriage and family are the bedrock for the whole structure of a harmonious, unified global society.
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 Family is ideally a married man and a woman with children they conceive or choose to raise together. It broadens to encompass many people in a couple's life and can include their parents, grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Families are support systems for the establishment and nurturing of marriages and children. The unity of the family is of paramount importance and can be supported by the involvement of the parents in a couple's decision to marry and join families together.
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Inspirational and Religious Quotes about Family
Friendship, Dating, and Courting describes the stages a couple may go through before marriage. Friendship is a strong foundation for marriage, as it includes sharing communications from mind, heart, and soul and staying loyal and strong through challenges and difficulties. Friendship, dating, and courting allow two people to get to know each other's character fully, grow and develop together, and be certain about selecting each other as marriage partners. All three ideally happen in close communication with family and with the involvement of parents, who will also want to know the character of prospective new family members. [back to top]
Character is the sum total of all the spiritual qualities/virtues a person  has developed and demonstrates in his or her actions. When someone has a "good character," he or she likely has well-developed spiritual qualities, such as kindness, truthfulness, trustworthiness, compassion, courage, and so on. It strengthens relationships when couples know one another's character before marriage and engage in encouraging one another to develop character qualities at all stages of the relationship.
Here is a list of 56 character qualities:
Acceptance Faithfulness Peacefulness
Assertiveness Flexibility Perseverance
Beauty Forgiveness Purity
Caring Friendliness Purposefulness
Chastity Generosity Respect
Commitment Gentleness Responsibility
Compassion Helpfulness Self-Discipline
Confidence Honesty Service
Contentment Humility Sincerity
Cooperation Idealism Spirituality
Courage Integrity Strength
Courtesy Joyfulness Tactfulness
Creativity Justice Thankfulness
Detachment Kindness Thoughtfulness
Discernment Love Trustworthiness
Encouragement Loyalty Truthfulness
Enthusiasm Mercy Unity
Equality Moderation Wisdom
Excellence Patience
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Inspirational and Religious Quotes about Character
Book About Character and Marriage
Compatibility is the ability of two people to accept and understand their similarities and differences and blend them together in a way that allows them to be harmonious in their lives together. Where compatibility develops or exists, it is a relationship strength that allows the couple to focus on their children, families, work, and community service together without spending all of their energies attempting to get along with each other. [back to top]
Inspirational and Religious Quotes about Compatibility
Chastity is a reverent and respectful gift of physical and spiritual wholeness that an individual gives to his/herself and his/her marriage partner out of love for God and obedience to God's laws. Part of the gift of chastity is the couple's commitment to protect the marriage's integrity and engage in sexual actions only with each other. Chastity includes guarding oneself from impure thoughts or actions and making a commitment to faithfulness, restraint, moderation, and modesty in actions and speech. It requires personal moderation in dress, language, amusements, artistic expressions, and hobbies. It eliminates the practices of nudism and cohabitation, infidelity in marital relationships, promiscuity, easy familiarity with others, violence towards one's partner, and sexual vices. It includes  asking God for spiritual strength in making decisions that respect everyone, and to guide a person's thoughts, words, and actions at all times. A person can re-claim and re-commit to chastity for themselves and their actions at any point they choose. Chastity is also a gift that balances, strengthens, and focuses male and female energy. The more this balance exists in marriages, the greater the possibility of love and peace in the world. [back to top]
Abstinence is a choice to curb one's behavior and not engage in activities, practices, and substances that are illegal, immoral, or otherwise harmful to oneself or others. It also refers to reserving physically intimate actions for marriage, including, but not limited to, sexual intercourse.
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