Inspirational Marriage Quotes

7 Principles of a Happy Marriage

Always listen
Be there
Compromise is necessary
Build up trust
A kiss before sleep, a kiss after waking
Never keep score
Do things together ~ Steven Aitchison

What is more likely to lead to true marital satisfaction-getting a fallen spouse to change his or her ways, or changing your own focus so that you draw affirmation from a God who never disappoints, never turns you away? ~ Gary Thomas

The one trying to have the last word is rarely walking in the Word. ~ Hollisa Alewine

Relationships are not additive, but multiplicative because you connect with his/her childhood experiences, past relationships, thoughts on money and more. ~ Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

Faith is one of only two things in mankind's consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one's marriage. ~ Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

The motive for marriage must be eternal not just temporal. ~ Ugochi Oritsejolomisan

I am dedicated to the preservation of my marriage's unity. ~ Gary Thomas

I'm not a fan of everything that our ancestors did. But some practices are worth reviving. One of them is looking upon marriage as a sacred partnership between two souls; not as a political alliance between two power centres. ~ Amish Tripathi

Hope is putting Faith "on the line" and expecting results!
(from Mission Possible - Spiritual Covering) ~ Deborah L. McCarragher

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness. ~ John Selden

If you love someone, you don't act like they annoy you. You like them, and you try and make them think they're the most important person in the world to you. ~ Susan May Warren

Inside marriage, those feelings are pure. God wouldn't order us to be fruitful and multiply if He didn't want us to share intimacy. It fosters a special closeness. ~ Cathy Marie Hake

Don't just be secure in who you are; be secure in who you are not. ~ Karen Budzinski

Attitude determines Altitude.
Winners never quit.
No venture, No gain. ~ Stella Oladiran

Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs. ~ Mark Gungor

I don't want you just in my thoughts always, I want you by my side always. ~ Brenda Hodnett

On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again. ~ Felicity Huffman

A young woman faces the decision of whether to marry a certain man whom she loves but who has deeply rooted, traditional ideas concerning marriage, family life, and the roles of men and women in each. A sober assessment of her future tell the woman that each of the two alternatives offers real but contrasting goods. One life offers the possibility of a greater degree of personal independence, the chance to pursue a career, perhaps more risk and adventure, while the other offers the rewards of parenting, stability, and a life together with a man whom, after all, she is in love with. In order to choose in a self-determined mode the woman must realize that the decision she faces involves more than the choice between two particular actions; it is also a choice between two distinct identities. In posing the questions "Who am I? Which of the two lives is really me?" she asks herself not a factual question about her identity but a fundamental practical question about the relative values of distinct and incommensurable goods. The point I take to be implicit in Tugendhat's (and Fichte's) view of the practical subject is that it would be mistaken to suppose that the woman had at her disposal an already established hierarchy of values that she must simply consult in order to decide whether to marry. Rather, her decision, if self-determined, must proceed from a ranking of values that emerges only in the process of reflecting upon the kind of person she wants to be. ~ Frederick Neuhouser

Marriage is nothing but a commitment to care and share. ~ Debasish Mridha

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening. ~ Ruth Rendell

Stop looking for your better half! You need to be whole to attract your better whole, if you expect to have a flourishing relationship. ~ Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

Never look to other couples to measure your worth; look to God to fulfill your call. ~ Gary Thomas

God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God. ~ Max Lucado

Spiritual purpose and mission can overcome weaknesses in character because God redeems our characters... ~ Gary Thomas

It is not the lack of commitment that destroys marriages, it is the lack of purpose. ~ Debasish Mridha

When looking for someone to marry, make sure they love you more than themselves, and God more than you. ~ Wendy Heuvel

Only two things in man's consciousness defy discussion: faith and one's marriage. ~ Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

We learn to love imperfect people by serving them out of reverence for a perfect God... ~ Gary Thomas

Marriage problems are relationship problems, they are the result of how two people interact with each other. You may abandon a troubled marriage, but you will still bring the way you interact with others along with you. ~ Mark Gungor

If we accept that the love of praise is a sin, that the lust to be known and appreciated by others is not just a fool's errand...but perhaps evidence of a heart focused on the wrong things, our marriages will be transformed. ~ Gary Thomas

Sex is not about genitalia. It's about relationship. When God said 'the two shall become one flesh,' he didn't mean it only physically. ~ Sheila Wray Gregoire

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question
'Is this all? ~ Betty Friedan

Growing marriages aren't determined by how much you have in common but by how graciously you deal with your differences. ~ Rick Warren

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real. ~ C.S. Lewis

To reveal your greatness, see the greatness in everyone. Ignore pettiness and forgive everyone. ~ Debasish Mridha

Our vision, which has not changed since the day the company was founded. ~ Bill Gates

Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl ~ Rumi

When I look at my friend's marriages, with their routine day-to-dayness, they actually seem far more romantic than any dating relationship might be. Dating seems romantic, but for the most part it's an extended audition. Marriage seems boring, but for the most part it's a state of comfort and acceptance. Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long-term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime. It's quietly romantic. He makes her tea. She goes to the doctor appointment with him. They listen to each other's daily trivia. They put up with each other's quirks. They're there for each other. ~ Lori Gottlieb

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.' ~ Francis Ford Coppola

Love messaged you, and now you see. ~ Love The Stacks Bookstore

Sometimes I feel I have a dual personality disorder; one lives the daily routine, and the other imagines. ~ Ruchi Singh

The distance between faith and doubt is your miracle. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When you judge your art with number of likes you get in response to it, you're killing the artist within, and giving rise to an entertainer. ~ Sameer Khan

Well-behaved women seldom make history. ~ Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

The King and Queen did the best they could. They hired the most superior tutors and governesses to teach Cimorene all the things a princess ought to know - dancing, embroidery, drawing, and etiquette. There was a great deal of etiquette, from the proper way to curtsy before a visiting prince to how loudly it was permissible to scream when being carried off by a giant. (...)

Cimorene found it all very dull, but she pressed her lips together and learned it anyway. When she couldn't stand it any longer, she would go down to the castle armory and bully the armsmaster into giving her a fencing lesson. As she got older, she found her regular lessons more and more boring. Consequently, the fencing lessons became more and more frequent.

When she was twelve, her father found out.

"Fencing is not proper behavior for a princess," he told her in the gentle-but-firm tone recommended by the court philosopher.

Cimorene tilted her head to one side. "Why not?"

"It's ... well, it's simply not done."

Cimorene considered. "Aren't I a princess?"

"Yes, of course you are, my dear," said her father with relief. He had been bracing himself for a storm of tears, which was the way his other daughters reacted to reprimands.

"Well, I fence," Cimorene said with the air of one delivering an unshakable argument. "So it is too done by a princess. ~ Patricia C. Wrede

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate. ~ Booker T. Washington

It takes at least one to make a marriage. ~ Jean Kerr

Nature has its own music, own song, if only we have time to listen and a heart to understand. ~ Debasish Mridha

We're all in crashing plane, and everybody is fighting over who gets to sit in first class. ~ Aaron Nordquist

Fall in love with the beauty of the heart; everything will be beautiful. ~ Debasish Mridha

I am graceful, joyful and wonderful. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude towards that fact. How you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You may permit a fact to overwhelm you mentally before you deal with it actually. On the other hand, a confident and optimistic thought pattern can overcome or modify the fact altogether. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his. ~ Jane Austen

If there's a takeaway from working here, it's an understand that, as bioorganisms, we are a walking time bomb programed for cellular self-destruction. Not if, when. ~ Laurie Nadel

All moral relationships are indissoluble according to their concept, as one can easily convince one's self by postulating their truth. A true state, a true marriage, a true friendship, and indissoluble. But no state, no marriage, no friendship corresponds completely to its concept... (Karl Marx) ~ Eugene Kamenka

Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely. ~ Jim Rohn

There's a part of grief that's unexpected. After the days when you think you'll never be able to get out of bed again and after walking about feeling like your insides are hollow and your skin is made of paper, you start remembering. You remember not the death and seeing the one you love in a hospital bed with tubes. You remember what he was like before all of that, when he was well and you were whole. It's that remembering that catches up with you and then you know the person you lost isn't lost after all, but has become part of you and you're the better for it. ~ Shelly King

If you take more than you give
you get less of what you can take ~ Steven Aitchison

Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now! ~ Tim Ferriss

The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama. It has competition. Every jogger can't dream of being an Olympic champion, but he can dream of finishing a marathon. ~ Fred Lebow

It's okay to be afraid. God is not disappointed by your fear. ~ Shirley Corder

Sometimes you have to go to the bottom in order to start at the Top. ~ Pensacola Helene

Rather than the destination it is the journey that lends meaning to our lives, great Neelkanth. Being faithful to our path will lead to consequences, both good as well as bad. For that is the way of the universe. ~ Amish Tripathi

Saying #113,
Christ's disciples ask, When will the kingdom come?
Jesus replies, The kingdom of the Father will not come by expectation. The kingdom of the Father is spread upon the earth and men do not see it. ~ Anonymous

It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature.

al-Futûhât al-Makkiyya ~ Ibn Arabi

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage. ~ Phil McGraw

It is not the luck which brings success. It is the strong will ~ Rajasaraswathii

We meet no ordinary people in our lives. ~ C.S. Lewis

When you give up on life, never give up on yourself, because there is so much for you to keep on giving! ~ Oprah Winfrey

Just being a woman is God's gift. The origin of a child is a mother, a woman. She shows a man what sharing, caring, and loving is all about. That is the essence of a woman. ~ Sushmita Sen

Trust your instincts. Follow your heart. ~ Debasish Mridha

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. (I Corinthians 13: 7-8a ESV) ~ Anonymous

You cannot live with inner tranquility and peace when you hate others. ~ Debasish Mridha

The strength of the genie comes from being in a bottle. ~ Richard Wilbur

Women instinctually know how to nourish each other, and just being with each other is restorative ~ Tanja Taaljard

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live. ~ Mignon McLaughlin

A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them. ~ William Ellery Channing

Oh! Let me love forever.
Let me dream in love.
Without power of love,
life is a waterless river. ~ Debasish Mridha

When the right elements combine, anything is possible. ~ Martin Cosgrove

Often, during times when I am in a state of absolute bliss and gratitude, those are the times that people will ask me, "Are you happy or are you sad?" It's funny, because when you are happy in a way that most people are happy in, that is, when you are jumping up and down and laughing and smiling and giggling, people will recognize that as happiness. But when you go beyond that state and on into the state of blissfulness - nirvana - only a very few number of people are going to be able to recognize and understand that. Why? Because only very few people have gone beyond the level of obvious happiness, to experience actual nirvaana. Nirvana is what I describe as being in a state of worship; you see, you go beyond just feeling happy and grateful, and you enter into a state of mind that allows you to worship what you have been given or what you have attained or achieved, or whatever circumstance you are in that is making you happy. You stop and you worship the person, the place, the thing, the feeling. I'm easily flung into that state, so, I often find it strange that I can be in an absolute state of bliss, meanwhile, the other person can be asking me if I am either happy or sad. But I am worshipping. ~ C. JoyBell C.

That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it. ~ Marcus Allen

Like a bud is born with the knowing that it will flower when the season comes, like a bird is born with the principles of flight that take over when it spreads its wings to fly, the human body-mind-soul, is born with the capacity to heal itself, long before it is taught ... to forget. ~ Sanjiv Ranjan