Quotes About Commitment

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Marriage is the interview that never ends.

Sex appeal alone is the poorest basis in the world for a happy marriage.

Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your private pleasure at the expense of your spouse, you are living against yourself and destroying your joy. But if you devote yourself with all your heart to the holy joy of your spouse, you will also be living for your joy and making a marriage after the image of Christ and His church.

Sexual expression within a marriage is not an option or an extra. It is certainly not, as it has sometimes been considered, a necessary evil in which spiritual Christians engage only to procreate children. It is far more than a physical act. God created it to be the expression an experience of love on the deepest human level and to be a beautiful and powerful bond between husband and wife.

God intends and expects marriage to be a lifetime commitment between a man and a woman, based on the principles of biblical love. The relationship between Jesus Christ and His church is the supreme example of the committed love that a husband and wife are to follow in their relationship with each other.

The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God's help to do just that.

It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show them up.

One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.

I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

A man doesn't own his marriage; he is only the steward of his wife's love.

The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union the sexual from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

If I ever find myself in North Carolina I shall marry a man just to feel safe.

Getting married was the best thing Ive ever done. I married my best friend. I'm so lucky to get to be with him every day, and hes my protector. I feel so safe and happy and completed.

I think that having the compassion of someone who knows your faults and still loves you is one of the best things you can have in life. I just love being married. It's nice, and I like wearing the ring. It's cool.

My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And...she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.

A man does not ask a woman to marry him because he wants to spend the rest of his life with her. He asks her to marry him because he 'does not' want to spend the rest of his life 'without' her.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

Books and marriage go ill together.

Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

Marriage is... OK, it's rooted and grounded on love and attraction.