From Gabriel Calvo's 'Face to Face':
"To love is to accept the other as a person and as a whole. Of course, this free decision to accept the other is accompanied by feelings, emotions and sensations. These, however, are secondary to the priority of the decision and to the unconditional acceptance of the spouse.
"Most of today’s married couples seem to give maximum importance to material things – cars, houses, clothing, money etc... God is not seen in the horizon nor in the bottom of their lives. He is eclipsed, or perhaps forgotten, or lost.”
"You cannot know each other, understand each other, or grow in intimacy and love if you don’t practice frequent reconciliation... Because it is only those we love deeply that we can hurt deeply, reconciliation is the necessary first step toward genuine love.”