Marriage Quotes - Page 18

When it comes to sex: some men treat women as objects; some women treat objects as men.

Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man.

Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one of you cracks or stops existing.

I had this dream about you last night. We were still married. I was giving you a haircut, like I always did, being careful to trim around the scar on the back of your head. I’m sorry I sometimes forgot it and left you with a bald spot. And, I’m sorry we didn’t work out. But you look pretty happy on Instagram.

What I’m trying to say is that it will be okay between you and Nate. Because you both want that. Because you both want that more than anything. It sounds simple, but I’m learning that the problems start when you want different things

And when he got home he started on Mumma. He hated her then, because in her fatness and untidiness and drabness she reminded him of what he himself was when he was sober.

People pleasing doesn't allow you to receive.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

King of grand gesture.

And so I found myself in a kind of love lock: pining for the wrong person, grieving beside a woman whose body I can't touch, being given a second chance I can't find the clarity to take.

In the beginning - not now, thank God - Patty was always sharing the important books of her life with him, like Black Elk Speaks, The Golden Bough, and Hero with a Thousand Faces.

Woman study loving him his whole life; Man study loving well, your whole wife

Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.

There is a light in every soul.

Love is a spark of light.

You cannot begin to understand the failure of marriage - or the living of these ideas commitment or covenant - without considering and factoring in the devaluing of fatherhood. The two are inextricably linked and dependent.

When you listen to your spouse, you are communicating non verbally that they are important to you.

Your positive impact on the generations to come will be directly related to the ministry you have in that little place called home.

To last, a marriage and family must be built on love - love for God, and love for one another.

A marriage filled with unconditional love experiences the depth of grace and mercy.