Author of quotes: Metropolitan Anthony Of Sourozh

The first thing to be thinking about husbands when they marry: they have been given by God a fragile creature, which they said "I love you" - and this love must be such that the husband is willing to sacrifice everything, his entire life, out of love for his wife and love for his children. The husband is the head of the family, not because he is male, but because he is the image of Christ, and his wife and children can see it this way, that is the way love is limitless, love betrayed, love is selfless, love that is willing to do anything to save, to protect, to nourish, to comfort, to delight, to raise his family. This every man should remember. Too easy for man to think that because he's a man, he has rights to his wife over his wife and over his children. This is - not true. If it is not the image of Christ, then nobody is bound in any respect, no fear, no obedience.

We all think we know what love is, and know how to love. Actually very often we can only feast on human relations. We think we love a person because we have a tender feeling, because he is good, but love is something much greater, more demanding and sometimes tragic.

Only with the eyes of love we can see the person the way it is in its very depth, in its very essence, and therefore to treat him. So true God is to us.

The secret of love to the person starts at the moment when we look at him without wanting to possess, without the desire to rule over him, with no desire whatsoever to take advantage of his gifts or his personality - just look and marvel at the beauty that was opened to us.