Quotes about Marriage

A kiss a day keeps your wife's wrath away.

A wedding is and event, but marriage is a life.

Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God.

The married man and the mother of a Christian family, if they are faithful to their obligations, will fulfill a mission that is as great as it is consoling: that of bringing into the world and forming young souls capable of happiness and love, souls capable of sanctification and transformation in Christ.

I began to appreciate religious belief as a relationship, like a deep friendship, or a marriage, something that I could plunge into, not knowing exactly what I was doing or what would be demanded of me in the long run.

According to God, the One who designed and instituted marriage, love is a choice. It's a matter of obedience, not emotion.

You did not invent marriage. God did.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

The resurrection constitutes, as it were, the womb of the new aeon, out of which believers issue as, in a new, altogether unprecedented, sense, sons of God: "They are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection," therefore they neither marry, nor are given in marriage (Lk. xx. 35-36).

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.