Quotes About Relationship

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.

Marriage itself is consummated with the literal bodily union of husband and wife. From that point on, the husband should regard the wife as his own flesh. If she hurts, he ought to feel the pain. If she has needs, he should embrace those needs as his own. He should seek to feel what she feels, desire what she desires, and in effect, give her the same care and consideration he gives his own body.

Since the marriage relationship is to reflect the relationship between Jesus Christ and His Church, it is imperative that biblical submission and love be practiced in all of its aspects 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.

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 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.

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.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse

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.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Marriage is a state of antagonistic cooperation.

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination

Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

How could a man ever trust in a woman's judgment when he knows she chose him for a husband?

I'm no syllogism incarnate, but my wife makes me look like Immanuel Kant.