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Quotes About Marriage

I noticed a very pretty woman come past this quite jauntily about a month ago, on marriage with Monasimba. Ten goats were given; her friends came and asked another goat, which being refused, she was enticed away, became sick of rheumatic fever two days afterwards, and died yesterday. Not a syllable of regret for the beautiful young creature does one hear, but for the goats: "Oh, our ten goats!"—they cannot grieve too much—"Our ten goats—oh! oh!
~ David Livingstone
God invented concubinage, satan marriage.
~ Francis Picabia
But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.
~ Tony Campolo
I was married to Glenn Ford. But now I feel as though I'm married to God, and in the nicest, purest sense.
~ Eleanor Powell
That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.
~ Garrison Keillor
Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God.
~ Hubert Van Zeller
Marriage is sanctified when it is cherished and honored in holiness. That union is not merely between husband and wife; it embraces a partnership with God.
~ Russell M. Nelson
When [we]were first married, [Wade] begged me to be practical...thank God I lived by my credo: 'Veni, vidi, visa - I came, I saw, I charged it.
~ Swoosie Kurtz
I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.
~ Victoria Wood
Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse.
~ Willie Aames
The closer a husband and wife get to God, the closer they get to each other. The farther away they get from God, the farther they get from each other.
~ Jim Bob Duggar
I discovered the wife's got asthma. Thank God - I thought she was hissing at me.
~ Les Dawson
God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.
~ Martin Luther
The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.
~ Billy Graham
I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
~ Lech Walesa
...make dads the godly leaders [of the family] with the women in submission, raising kids for the glory of God.
~ Randall Terry
The temple will be an ever-present reminder that God intended the family to be eternal.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
What's the good of not believing? Today it's your wife you don't believe; tomorrow it's God Himself you won't take stock in.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Satan probably wouldn't have talked so big if God had been his wife.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.
~ Saul Bellow
A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.
~ Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.
~ Tony Campolo
Things that Hillary Clinton advocates are antithetical to Christian values: killing babies, redefining institutions established by God.
~ Benjamin Carson
When we choose to obey God and give our bodies to our husbands—even if we don't feel like it—God will reward us with pleasure.
~ Carolyn Mahaney