Marriage should lead to a profound friendship of spirit, which will endure in the next world.

~ Shoghi Effendi, Lights of Guidance

The twain in one are joined today. May their right hands be tied by the bond of love in lasting union. May the mind of one blend with the mind of the other and the heart be in tune with the heart. May the twin spirits be one spirit in joy and sorrow, success and failure, prosperity and adversity. May the two come nearer to each other in good thoughts, good words, and good deeds from day unto day.

May each transmit something good to the other. May each take the best that is in the other, and give something better than the best. May each give in goodness what the other lacks and may they give mutual completion to each other in life.

Locked in the embrace of wedded love, may they live for each other, may they share each other's feelings, may they lighten each other's load in life, and may they live in the loving fellowship of minds and hearts. May each elevate and embellish what nature has bestowed on the other. With hearts knitted together, may the two be the whole world to each other. May each one be life for the other. May he be hers and she be his wholly for all the days of their lives. May each cleave faithfully unto each in body and mind and spirit as the vine that twines its tendrils around the tall tree. May better than the best come unto them. May it be so even as we pray. Ahura Mazda . Amen.

~ Zoroastrianism: Wedding Ceremony, The One World Book of Prayer

It is He who created your from a single person, and made his mate of like nature, in order that he might dwell with her (in love). When they are united, she bears a light burden and carries it about (unnoticed). When she grows heavy, they both pray to God their Lord, (saying): "if Thou givest us a goodly child, we vow we shall (ever) be grateful."

~ The Holy Qur'an 7:189

May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
May it be sweet milk,
     this marriage, like wine and halvah.
May this marriage offer fruit and shade
     like the date palm.
May this marriage be full of laughter,
     our every day a day in paradise.
May this marriage be a sign of compassion,
      a seal of happiness here and hereafter.
May this marriage have a fair face and a good name,
      an omen as welcome as the moon in a clear blue sky.
I am out of words to describe
     how spirit mingles in this marriage.

The greatest happiness which a mortal man can imagine in the bond of marriage that ties together two loving hearts.

~ The Gospel of Buddha, The Marriage-Feast in Jambunada

The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

~ Amy Grant

Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.

~ Tom Mullen

God has commanded the estate of matrimony, that every one may have his proper portion and be satisfied therewith.

~ Martin Luther, Large Catechism

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

~ Raquel Welch

In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic, a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts, an enabler rather than a reformer.

~ H. Norman Wright and Gary J. Oliver

Marriage is not so much finding the right person as being the right person.
             ~ Charles W. Shedd, Quoted in Lists to Live By for Every Married Couple, p. 76

But at the beginning of creation God made them male and female. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let no man separate.
                                                                 ~ Christianity: The Holy Bible, Mark 10:6-9

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
                   ~ George Eliot, Quoted in Lists to Live By for Every Married Couple, p. 170