"Jesus said: 'Have ye not read that He who made them at the
beginning made them male and female, and said, For this
cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cleave
to his wife; and they twain shall be one flesh. Wherefore
they are no more twain but one flesh. What, therefore, God
hath joined together, let not man put asunder.'"

--_Matthew_, XIX, 4, 5


A PRICELESS JEWEL

The conjugial inclination of one man to one wife is the jewel of human
life and the depository of the Christian religion.

--_Conjugial Love, n._ 457


THE PROGRESSIVE CHASTITY OF MARRIAGE

The love in marriage is from its origin and correspondence heavenly,
spiritual, holy, pure and clean above every other love which the
angels of heaven or men of the Church have from the Lord. It is such
from its origin, which is the marriage of good and truth; also from
its correspondence with the marriage of the Lord and the Church. If it
be received from its Author, Who is the Lord, sanctity from Him
follows, which continually cleanses and purifies it. Then, if there be
in man's will a longing for it and an effort toward it, this love
becomes continually cleaner and purer. All who are in such love shun
extra-conjugial loves (which are conjunctions with others than their