Quotes about Marriage

Christmas means a great deal to me. I was reared in a family that celebrated Christmas to some extent, but I married into a family that celebrated Christmas in a big way. And my wife always made a big thing of Christmas for the children. We have five children, and we had a terrific time at Christmas.

The next thing I want to say is that God's way is always the best way. It's the only way, really. And God's word clearly says he created sex for one man and one woman to share only inside the commitment of marriage

Marrying a woman of priestly ancestry was a special blessing.

Singleness and marriage are both evidences of God's grace that are to be experienced and sustained purely by the strength which God supplies.

A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.

The Bible stresses that a marriage ideally should be a picture or a reflection of Christ's love for His people.

Few people who marry plan for their marriages to fail, but neither do they specifically plan for success.

The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative

It was a small ceremony at the town hall, and they didn't exchange wedding rings, but they kissed for so long at the counter in the hall of records that they were asked to leave.

Unable are the Loved to die, for love is immortality, the Reverend quoted at the end of the marriage service, a blessing not only for the happy couple exchanging vows, but also in remembrance of Jet, whose favorite poet was Emily Dickinson, and of Franny, who had sacrificed so much for those she loved.

She once told me that anyone who gets married had better like herself, because there's nobody else in this world that she'll ever really know, not truly.

The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.