Quotes about Spouse

It doesn't take long in marriage bedore you realize that your spouse doesn't share your instincts. At that point, either you worship God as sovereign and celebrate the different way of looking at the world that your spouse has blessed you with, or you dishonor him by trying to rewrite his story.

Love is daily admitting to yourself, your spouse, and God that you are not able to love this way without God's protecting, providing, forgiving, rescuing, and delivering grace.

But when you begin to celebrate the sovereignty of God and how he formed you and brought you and your spouse together for his glory and your good, you quit being irritated by your differences and start celebrating how your life has been enhanced by them. As a result, you will not only give room to your spouse's sensibilities, but you will honor him or her in what you do and say in the moments when you are confronted with the differences in your approach to the very same things.

Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father—though not the daughter of my mother—and she became my wife.

but you shall go to my father’s house and to my kindred to take a wife for my son.’

The woman he marries must be a virgin.

He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,

A man is not to marry his father’s wife, so that he will not dishonor his father’s marriage bed.

He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.

Then some Pharisees came and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,