Quotes About Commitment

A marriage without friendship is like a locked prison with lost keys.

Friendship brings out the best in marriage.

All lasting and successful marriages are the result of enduring friendship.

Friendship is not automatic.

The only relationship that gives the fullest expression of friendship is marriage.

It's not automatic to have a successful friendship in marriage; it's decisive and intentional.

Best friends don't always make the best couple; it takes hard work.

The real cost of true friendship is death (John 15:13).

True friendship costs more than love.

Until you love your spouse enough to make them your best friend, you could stay with them for years and never taste the friend in them.

Marriage is a lifetime opportunity to have your spouse as your lifetime best friend.

Marriage is not the full-stop of friendship.

The best relationship for the full consummation of friendship is marriage.

Make your spouse your best friend. This won't happen overnight; it takes hard work.

Being best friends before marriage is no guarantee you will continue to be best friends after marriage; it only gives you a higher ground to sustain your best friendship.

Come together with your spouse, and become each other's best friend forever.

The result of friendship is hard work not by chance.

When you marry, you come into two different but equally essential parts of relationship with your spouse; a marriage relationship and a friendship relationship.

To become best friends in marriage all you need to do is to be each other's friend.

Most marriages take friendships for granted; that's why there are only few spouse's who are best friends.

Together they will spend a happy hour seated side by side..., while Ivy's tender hand guides Duffy's as he traces out laboriously, in pencil, over and over until he has them off pat, the magic letters of his name. More than the wedding itself, that little ceremony there under the lamp, all silent save for the soft scratching of graphite on paper, will mark the true beginning of their life together.

Them lady poets must not marry, pal . . . It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them.

They say we have weak wills. Do you know about the two drunks who went to the film of The Lost Weekend. Came out staggering. My God I'll never take another drink, said the first. My God I'll never go to another movie. How's that for commitment?

But Jesus said, "Not everyone is mature enough to live a married life. It requires a certain aptitude and grace. Marriage isn't for everyone. Some, from birth seemingly, never give marriage a thought. Others never get asked—or accepted. And some decide not to get married for kingdom reasons. But if you're capable of growing into the largeness of marriage, do it." (Matthew 19:11-12 The Message, emphasis added)