Marriage Quotes - Page 19

How can we pick and choose which parts of the Bible to follow? One thing is God’s will and another is just cultural differences? What if it’s all cultural? What if homosexuality or saving yourself for marriage is as outdated as women staying silent in church or Leviticus forbidding tattoos?

In marriage, we're called to reflect God's love for us through our self-giving love for our spouse. God's love for us isn't dependent on our day-to-day feelings toward him, on how hard we work to please him, or even on how faithful we are to him. It's grounded in his nature and his covenant.

Don’t let anyone sell you on the idea that anything (apart from the Lord Himself) is more important than your marriage. God means for your life and your marriage to be filled with passion and purpose.

Repentance is the first step on the path back to your relationship with God.

Never Let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can.

In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!

Marriage is the union of two 'I's to form a 'V'. Both 'I's have to tilt equally to make a good 'V'. 'I's standing tall can never make a 'V'.

No matter how tough the situation, you still have to hang on.

The thought of being completely dependent disturbs people till the moment their eyes are opened to reality.

If you don't know what it is you're looking for you're NEVER going to find it. You have to be clear on what it is you're seeking.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

The groom should not see you in the dress just before the wedding, that’s bad luck. You know what’s worst luck? Is getting married, itself. I’ve read studies. It’s like 2 out of 3 of those end in divorce, sometimes more. 3 out of 2, some.

Opposite her, calming his peaceful hunger, was old Jacob, a man who had loved her so much and for so long that he could no longer conceive of any suffering that didn't start with his wife.

Other married people have lived together and hated each other. Why shouldn't we? We may forget even to hate.

Mort was hurt by this. It was one thing not to want to marry someone, but quite another to be told they didn't want to marry you.

Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us.

Sometimes we hold on to the good and the better for a very long time that we don't even know when we allowed the best to slip away from our hands.

Beauty won’t protect you. Not in the end. What will is the one thing you can’t plan for. The one thing you can’t save for or search for or even find. It has to find you and decide to stay. Time. More of it. More of it to try and make things right.

Marriage should be like time, we shouldn’t try to change it nor undo it, but instead make the most and the best out of it.