On Marriage and Family Life

Don't turn your back on your wife because she is not beautiful. Listen to what Scripture says: ' The bee is small among flying creatures, but her product is the best of sweet things.

Let no one marry a woman for her money; such wealth is base and disgraceful. No, by no means let anyone aspire to get rich from his wife. ' Those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many sensel…

So when you see a prostitute setting snares, plotting against you, desiring your body, say to her, ' This body is not mine. It belongs to my wife. I do not dare to mistreat it nor to lend it to another woman.' The wife s…