Quotes about Marriage

There is no substitute for marrying in the temple.

When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.

I am grateful my own eternal companion served a mission in Hawaii before we were married in the Salt Lake Temple, and I am pleased that I have had three granddaughters serve full-time missions.

If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

My dear Mina, why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them? Here was I almost making fun of this great hearted, true gentleman. I burst into tears, I am afraid, my dear, you will think this a very sloppy letter in more ways than one, and I really felt very badly. Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?

We've learned that sometimes a lack of conflict in a marriage means you are not fighting for it. There are times you must battle to become one.

How many parents have lost the hearts of their children because they forgot why they had them? It was never to control them but to provide an environment in which they would flourish. How many couples have lost their marriages because they forgot why they were together? They fight against each other rather than for their love. Do we grasp and wrestle with others for their roles because we lose sight of our own?

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.

My toughest fight was with my first wife.