Marriage: A Blessing or Curse?

As we discussed in the previous post marriage is very special. It is sacred and should not be entered into lightly.

For those who are not yet married, please carefully consider these quotes from the pen of Ellen White:  

  Messages to Young People, 461.   “The marriage institution was designed of Heaven to be a blessing to man; but, in a general sense, it has been abused in such a manner as to make it a dreadful curse.”

  4 Testimonies, 503.   “There is not one marriage in one hundred that results happily, that bears the sanction of God, and places the parties in a position better to glorify Him.”

  Messages to Young People, 455.   “Satan is busily engaged in influencing those who are wholly unsuited to each other to unite their interests. He exults in this work, for by it he can produce more misery and hopeless woe to the human family than by exercising his skill in any other direction.”

  Review and Herald, March 24, 1868.   “As in the days of Noah, one of the signs of these times is a passion for injudicious and hasty marriages. Satan is in this. If Paul could remain single, and recommend the same to others, that he and they might be wholly His, and wish to make a sure thing of avoiding the cares, trials, and bitter anguish, so frequent in the experiences of those who choose the married life, remain as he was? And more, if he chose to remain so, and could recommend it to others, eighteen centuries since, would not to remain as he was, be a commendable course for those who are waiting for the coming of the Son of man, unless evidences were unquestionable that they were bettering their condition, and making Heaven more sure by so doing? When so much is at stake, why not be on the sure side every time?”

  5 Testimonies, 366.   “In this age of the world, as the scenes of earth's history are soon to close and we are about to enter upon the time of trouble such as never was, the fewer the marriages contracted, the better for all, both men and women.”