Wendell Berry Quotes

Marriage [is] Not Just A Bond Between Two People But A Bond Between Those Two People And Their Forebears, Their Children, And Their Neighbors ... Lovers Must Not ... Live For Themselves Alone ... They Say Their Vows To The Community As Much As To One Another, And The Community Gathers Around Them To Hear And To Wish Them Well, On Their Behalf And On Its Own. It Gathers Around Them Because It Understands How Necessary, How Joyful, And How Fearful This Joining Is. These Lovers ... Are Giving Themselves Away, And They Are Joined By This As No Law Or Contract Could Ever Join Them. Lovers, Then, 'die' Into Their Union With One Another As A Soul 'dies' Into Its Union With God ... If The Community Cannot Protect This Giving, It Can Protect Nothing ... It Is The Fundamental Connection Without Which Nothing Holds, And Trust Is Its Necessity.

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