Quotes about Marriage

When it comes to girls, the greatest gift you can give to the young man is to watch you love your wife.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.

Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

Watch a marriage that was begun with hope and dreams, but has now plateaued, where affections have cooled and intimacy has faded. Rather than name the problem, face their pain, and ask for help, the couple resign themselves to a life of mediocrity, living together as intimate strangers. See a middle-aged man who spends

Marriage is sacred. And the Bible says that God hates divorce. He hates it because he wants better for you. He never intended for you to have a broken marriage of a broken home. He loves you.

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

Marriage has worked better for men than for women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is not in separation. It is in simple integrity that leads a man and a woman to square up their shoulders and meet their obligations. It is found in the Golden Rule, a time-honored principle that should first and foremost find expression in marriage.

How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship will continue, notwithstanding the certainty of death and the passage of time. Men may write love songs and sing them. They may yearn and hope and dream. But all of this will be only a romantic longing unless there is an exercise of authority that transcends the powers of time and death.