. . .Each
marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect
people. Happiness can come to them only through their earnest effort.
Just as harmony comes from an orchestra only when its members make a
concerted effort, so harmony in marriage also requires a concerted
effort. That effort will succeed if each partner will minimize personal
demands and maximize actions of loving selflessness.
President
Thomas S. Monson has said: “To find real happiness, we must seek for it
in a focus outside ourselves. No one has learned the meaning of living
until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man.
Service to others is akin to duty—the fulfillment of which brings true
joy.”
Harmony
in marriage comes only when one esteems the welfare of his or her
spouse among the highest of priorities. When that really happens, a
celestial marriage becomes a reality, bringing great joy in this life
and in the life to come.
"Celestial Marriage" Russell M. Nelson General Conference November 2008
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