Quotes about Marriage

I once read that love is like a rose: we fixate on the blossom, but it's the thorny stem that keeps it alive and aloft. I think marriage is like that. Like my father said, the things of greatest value are the things we fight for. And in the end, if we do it right, we value the stem far more than the blossom

The language of love and the language of seduction are the same. The one who wishes a girl for a wife and the one who wishes her for only a night both say the words, "I love you." Jesus has told us to discern between the language of seduction and the language of love, and to know the wolves clad in sheepskin from the real sheep.

The failure to understand the infinite depth of the human soul is often why people who are married have affairs. They stop exploring the person they married. They find somebody who appears more interesting.

Your marriage will only be as healthy as the least healthy one of you.

When you get married you're starting a conversation that never ends

I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.

I want to be with my best friend. My best friend, my wife. Who could ask for anything more?

Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can't understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.

My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.

No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.

Faithfulness to your husband means sticking up for him, always building him up and never tearing him down.