Quote

I found this quote printed on another blog (The Purple Cellar http://purplecellar.blogspot.com/) and wanted to put it on mine too! It is lovely and the source might surprise some of us!

"The idea that I shall become used to being without you is really funny. I could speak for a long time on the subject. As I have told you many, many times, the passing of the years does nothing but deepen and intensify my love for you. When I think of those days in London in 1925 and '26, when I thought that no greater love was possible, I could laugh. But honestly, during this last year I had come to believe that it was not possible for a man to love his wife more than I loved you. And yet I see that there is no end to love, and that it is still true that "absence makes the heart grow fonder." I am quite certain that there is no lover, anywhere, writing to his girl who is quite as mad about her as I am. Indeed, I pity those lovers who are not married."

The writer? D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, to his wife Bethan, September 25, 1939, reproduced in D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: Letters 1919-1981, Iain Murray, Ed. (Banner of Truth 1994).