Quotes about Commitment

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your private pleasure at the expense of your spouse, you are living against yourself and destroying your joy. But if you devote yourself with all your heart to the holy joy of your spouse, you will also be living for your joy and making a marriage after the image of Christ and His church.

Sexual expression within a marriage is not an option or an extra. It is certainly not, as it has sometimes been considered, a necessary evil in which spiritual Christians engage only to procreate children. It is far more than a physical act. God created it to be the expression an experience of love on the deepest human level and to be a beautiful and powerful bond between husband and wife.

The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God's help to do just that.

The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union the sexual from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Marriage is a long event of perpetual change in which a man and a woman mutually build up their souls and make themselves whole.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

They asked her (Ruth Graham) did she ever think about divorce and she said, 'No, I've never thought of divorce in all these 35 years of marriage, but,' she said, 'I did think of murder a few times.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.