Quotes about Relationships

Gardens don't grow by themselves; they need to be tended and cultivated and weeded. The same is true of a marriage.

If young people could only realize that a happy marriage depends not only on the present, but upon the past, they would be more reluctant to enter into loose, intimate relations with anyone and everyone.

When a husband and wife are concerned only about their own individual desires, the stage is set for conflict.

The broken home has become the number one social problem of America, and could ultimately lead to the destruction of our civilization... it does not make screaming headlines; but, like termites, it is eating away at the heart and core of the American structure.

It's amazing how we can hurt others, especially those close to us... subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which wives belittle husbands and vice versa.

Uncontrolled anger is a devastating sin, and no one is exempt from its havoc. It shatters friendships and destroys marriages; it causes abuse in families and discord in business; it breeds violence in the community and war between nations. Its recoil, like that of a high-powered rifle, often hurts the one who wields it as well as its target. Anger makes us lash out at others, destroying relationships and revealing our true nature.

I get many letters every day from people who got married because they wanted their own selfish needs satisfied, and have only later come to realize that this does not work.

Marriage is not a reform school... Instead of you reforming [your spouse], [he or she] will instead influence you.

He went to the wedding at Cana as well as to the home of Mary and Martha when Lazarus died. He wept with those who wept and rejoiced with those who rejoiced.

The only really sound marriages are those based on mutual respect.

Almost nothing is as complex as the human personality, and no simple formula will ever cover every situation or every relationship.

Our culture puts feelings first, but true love isn't based on feelings. That is why there are so many divorces today. When the early romantic feelings in a marriage do not remain constant... many people believe divorce is the answer.