Quotes About Spouse

When I have been wronged by my spouse and she has painfully confessed it and requested forgiveness, I have the option of justice or forgiveness. If I choose justice and seek to pay her back or make her pay for her wrongdoing, I am making myself the judge and she the felon. Intimacy becomes impossible. If, however, I choose to forgive, intimacy can be restored. Forgiveness is the way of love.

Physical presence in the time of crisis is the most powerful gift you can give if your spouse's primary love language is receiving gifts.

With enough criticism, you may get acquiescence from your spouse. He may do what you want, but probably it will not be an expression of love.

Lord Jesus, I want to be an empathetic listener rather than a judgmental one. Please help me to concentrate on my spouse when we're talking rather than on myself. Bless our conversations.

If the physical presence of your spouse is important to you, I urge you to verbalize that to your spouse.

Physical presence in the time of crisis is the most powerful gift you can give if your spouse's primary love language is receiving gifts

Feeling loved by a spouse enhances our sense of significance. We reason, If someone loves me, I must have significance.

I love you. I care about you, and I choose to forgive you. Even though my feelings of hurt may linger, I will not allow what has happened to come between us. I hope that we can learn from this experience. You are not a failure because you have failed. You are my spouse, and together we will go on from here." Those are the words of affirmation expressed in the dialect of kind words.

My sense of self-worth is fed by the fact that my spouse loves me. After all, if she loves me, I must be worth loving. My parents may have given me negative or mixed messages about my worth, but my spouse knows me as an adult and loves me. her love builds my self-esteem.

Don't worry about your savings. You will always be a saver, but to invest in loving your spouse is to invest in blue-chip stocks.

The latent potential within your spouse in his or her areas of insecurity may await your encouraging words.

Father, thank you for putting such a high priority on families. Help me to keep that priority in my own life and to realize how my actions toward my spouse will affect my children for years to come.

Physical presence in the time of crisis is the most powerful gift you can give if your spouse's primary love language is receiving gifts. Your body becomes the symbol of your love.

He was a sincere husband who failed to understand the tremendous power of presence. His being there for his wife was more important than anything else in her mind. Physical presence in the time of crisis is the most powerful gift you can give if your spouse's primary love language is receiving gifts. Your body becomes the symbol of your love. Remove the symbol, and the sense of love evaporates.

Lord God, sometimes I forget how much a small gesture can mean to my spouse—even if his or her primary love language isn't gifts. Please help me to be thoughtful and to show him or her how much I care.

Lord God, thank you for all the wonderful things about my spouse. Please keep those fresh in my mind. Help me to use my words to acknowledge those things. May what I say heal and bring life.

On the other hand, we can share pain, sadness, and even anger in a kind manner, and that will be an expression of love. "I felt disappointed and hurt that you didn't offer to help me this evening," said with gentle directness, can be an expression of love. The person speaking wants to be known by her spouse. She is taking steps to build intimacy by sharing her feelings.

you spend more time on Facebook than you do listening to each other, you end up more concerned about your hundred "friends" than about your spouse.

But a good wife—a good unworldly woman—may really help a man, and keep him more independent.

You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.

Touring is easy. My wife will be with me a lot of the time. We get spoilt rotten, and all I have to do is go on stage in wonderful places and play music.

Typically, we get annoyed when our spouses complain. We get defensive. But, really, when your spouse complains, he or she is giving you wonderful information about what would make him or her feel loved.

The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives.

I have a wonderful wife who loves me, who's fantastic, who's just the thrill of my life - intriguing and mind-blowing.