Marriage Truth Quotes

#1. The central truth that serves as the platform for Christian marriage - and for all Christian relationships - is that in Christ we are at every moment eternally loved and genuinely significant.

Larry Crabb

#2. Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

Leo Tolstoy

#3. Christianity is saving truth and it's sanctifying truth, but we believe that it's Total Truth. It is the truth about every aspect of life from economics to masculinity to marriage. God has the right view on all of these things.

Nancy Pearcey

#4. To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#5. Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed plots and brilliant writing!

Sadegh Hedayat

#6. The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn't a government spending program. It's called marriage.

Marco Rubio

#7. Your assignment from God is not to change your husband, but to love, follow, assist, and minister to him.

Elizabeth George

#8. Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Menander

#9. Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.

Samuel Butler

#10. True love is wanting to spend the rest of your life with someone you would sometimes also like to strangle.

Crystal Woods

#11. The truth is many people see a marriage vow as the only way people are going to stay with someone who is sick.

Jenna Morasca

#12. Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier.

Pope Leo XIII

#13. True love is more than physical, emotional and romantical. It's an acceptance of all that has been, that is, will be and will not be.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#14. Variety is the spice of life, a truth which, of course, every happy marriage seems to contradict.

Theodor Fontane

#15. How many people actually read the Bible and follow it? The truth is right there. How many people know what a marriage or family is all about? Everything starts with an idea, but getting people to act is different. You can't do something well if you don't know what it is or tried it for awhile.

Phil Mitchell

#16. Adora you're not telling the truth. Go back to your husband and pay gross devotion to your marriage and family. Edochie is an angel. Only agberos would watch football and transfer aggression to their wives, not a captain.

S.A. David

#17. Then he blushed and seemed to fade where he stood ... When the musical star moved on, Lotto turned to her and silently docked his head on her shoulder for two moments, recharged he turned to face the others.

Lauren Groff

#18. For every guy who loves being a dad, there's another who realizes too late that he's created something his wife loves more than him.

Mark R. Brand

#19. Our tendency today is to assume that we can eliminate the authority of husband over wife and yet retain the authority of husband-wife over the children. The Bible is more realistic about marriage than modern man, for the truth is that in disobeying the one hierarchy we destroy the other.

Charles F. Stanley

#20. I do think there is much truth in the Young German idea that marriage is a shockingly immoral institution, as well as what we have long known it for - an extremely disagreeable one.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#21. The truth is that there are two men in Ibsen - an idealist, exalted to the verge of sentimentality, and a critic, hard, inexorable, remorseless, to the verge of cynicism. What we call his "social philosophy" is a modus vivendi arrived at between them. Both agree in repudiating "marriage for love";

Henrik Ibsen

#22. In my relationship, she is my woman and I am her man. This designation is not one of ownership, but of passion. It is a loving and passionate expression that reflects the truth that out of over seven billion people in the world, she is my ONE.

Steve Maraboli

#23. Margaret grasped on to the magic of novels because they held out hope that Mary - and she herself - might yet have a chance at marriage. While my own experience of life was limited, I knew such a thing would not happen. It hurt, but the truth often does.

Tracy Chevalier

#24. I was in and out of Yes six times. Someone once likened it to Liz Taylor and Richard Burton's marriage where we couldn't live with or without each other. There's an element of truth, and I last left in 2005.

Rick Wakeman

#25. Olivia. Your marriage wont last. Tell Noah the truth; be fair. when you do, come find me, and ill give you that baby.

Tarryn Fisher

#26. The core truth of our marriage, the most important thing for me to remember, was that Michael and I loved each other. Our love had gotten pushed aside and bruised and buried, but it has always existed.

Sarah Pekkanen

#27. Man and wife, realist and dreamer ... n truth they were more than one flesh, they had formed and sustained each other, they had ONE STORY between them and it wasn't at all easy for me or my brother to inhabit it.

Lorna Sage

#28. That is marriage, he thought, remaking yourself in someone else's image. And who knew where the truth of it began or would end?

Ashley Hay

#29. Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Thomas Moore

#30. Natural marriage, therefore, is fully understood in the light of its fulfilment in the sacrament of Matrimony: only in contemplating Christ does a person come to know the deepest truth about human relationships.

Pope Francis

#31. Don't compare the insides of your marriage to the outsides of other people's marriages. Pictures don't tell the truth. Smiling faces on Christmas cards don't reveal the pain behind the scenes. While your struggles are very personal and often very painful, but they are not unique.

Jill Savage

#32. Regarding love, marriage, and sex, both Shakespeare and Sitting Bull knew the only truth: treaties get broken.

Sherman Alexie

#33. If you have to make a daily choice to be in a relationship then you are married to the past, not the person.

Shannon L. Alder

#34. Somehow the idyllic existence I envisioned never quite came to pass, but aside from the occasional culinary disaster, my marriage wasn't bad.

Alexandra Bogdanovic

#35. Countless mistakes in marriage, parenting, ministry, and other relationships are failures to balance grace and truth. Sometimes we neglect both. Often we choose one over the other.

Randy Alcorn

#36. It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.

Alan Keyes

#37. Sometimes the one thing you need for growth is the one thing you are afraid to do.

Shannon L. Alder

#38. I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#39. Being an unveiled wife is about confronting and crushing your fears; believing in truth more than in doubt, worry, or lies, and finding your security in God alone

Jennifer Smith

#40. But the truth is, real love denies self to give those we love God's best. So I said no to Collin and yes to God, and I truly believe that's why our marriage is so wonderful today. Because the Bible is clear - God honors those who honor him.

Julie Lessman

#41. Love has no past tense.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#42. Proclaim the beauty and truth of the Christian message to a society which is tangent by confusing presentations of sexuality, marriage and the family.

Pope Francis

#43. I'll follow this good man, and go with you;
And, having sworn truth, ever will be true.

William Shakespeare

#44. The orthodoxy runs, that if a marriage is founded on less than perfect truth it will always come to light. I don't believe that. Marriage moves you further away from the examination of truth, not nearer to it.

Julian Barnes

#45. Truth be told, Raisa had no intention of marrying anyone any time soon. Her mother was young - she would rule for many years yet, so there was no need to rush into the confinement of marriage.

Cinda Williams Chima

#46. Openness and truth between partners were necessary if the marriage was to have a chance of bringing them any sort of happiness.

Mary Balogh

#47. To agree to a marriage is to consent to a mutual act of transformation, to promise to ensure that the versions of yourselves that you will become will remain in harmony, though you yourselves can never stay the same.

Dexter Palmer

#48. The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.

Stephen Kendrick

#49. Make poverty, sickness, and death central issues in the contract," he says, "it's no wonder the divorce rate is fifty percent.

Melissa Jensen

#50. Truth be told, many couples spend more time planning the wedding and the honeymoon than they do preparing for the marriage.

Carlos Wallace

#51. The truth is that wherever a man lies with a woman, there, whether they like it or not, a transcendental relation is set up between them which must be eternally enjoyed or eternally endured.

C.S. Lewis

#52. I'm afraid many young people today have very romantic ideas about marriage - ideas that do not necessarily reflect the truth ... Romantic feelings alone are not enough when the problems and strains come - as they inevitably do.

Billy Graham

#53. The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.

Demi Moore

#54. Maybe calling it being hitched ain't the prettiest way to say you're married, but it's the truth to my mind and true in a good way, because you're working together and depending on each other, and you're sharing the load.

Ron Rash

#55. Maybe I need the truth more than I need to hear what I want to hear. Maybe there is almost never a time when you don't need the truth. Or maybe it's just that you need the truth the most at times you think you don't want to hear it.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#56. A truth emerges in any long marriage, and the truth is this: Our spouses sometimes know us better than we even know ourselves.

Nicholas Sparks

#57. Where darkness had once overshadowed many of us, the radiant light of Christ exposed the truth that not one of us is truly ever alone.

Jennifer Smith

#58. Don't date anyone you can't see yourself marrying.

Turcois Ominek

#59. Then he just blurted it out, with no preparation. 'The truth of it is that whether your mother arranged our marriage, or whether it was all an illusion, I must be horribly obtuse, because I can't talk myself out of being in love with you.

Eloisa James

#60. I'll tell you what my mother always said. 'When it comes to marriage, if both don't win, nobody wins.' The longer I lived with your dad, the more I saw the truth in that. In the end, nobody won." "Well,

Terrie Todd

#61. Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It's mainly about telling the truth with our lives. It's about portraying something true about Jesus Christ and the way He relates to his people. It is about showing in real life the glory of the gospel.

John Piper

#62. But a funny thing happens when you tell a man that you don't want to get married: they don't believe you. They think you're lying to yourself or to them or you're trying to trick them in some way and you end up being made to feel worse for just telling the truth.

Jami Attenberg

#63. To tell the truth, it is regarding the physical side of marriage that I have always been apprehensive...There so seldom seems to be enough of it," said Miss Teatime.

Colin Watson

#64. It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.

Lisa Kleypas

#65. You may be old enough to marry, Matrim Cauthon, but in truth you shouldn't be off your mother's apron strings.

Robert Jordan

#66. I think it's almost immoral to keep on with a marriage that's really bad. It just gets more and more rotten and vindictive and everybody gets more and more hurt. There's not enough honesty about marriage, I think. I wish more people would face the truth about their marital situations.

Johnny Carson

#67. I'm not sure how we got to this place, where a girl's only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy.

Amy Engel

#68. The truth is that I'm more afraid of marriage than of death.

Shakira

#69. I really am happy for Kiley. And for you and every other happily married lady. Except for that I'm not happy for you. I kind of want you all to drop dead.

Rainbow Rowell

#70. The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.

Katherine Mansfield

#71. Fitness is like marriage, you can't cheat and expect it to work.

Anonymous

#72. A spouse who gets angry at having been betrayed is evading a basic, tragic truth: that no one can be everything to another person.

Alain De Botton

#73. A relationship that violates values is simply headed for crisis.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#74. All moral relationships are indissoluble according to their concept, as one can easily convince one's self by postulating their truth. A true state, a true marriage, a true friendship, and indissoluble. But no state, no marriage, no friendship corresponds completely to its concept... (Karl Marx)

Eugene Kamenka

#75. Most couples get married because it's time, not because they're in love. They might have money issues, parental pressure, or they're simply tired of being alone - so they pick Mr. Good Enough and tie the knot.

H.M. Ward

#76. It's always so hard when people assume someone cheated or broke up a marriage, when the truth may actually be much more complicated.

Christian Borle

#77. If truth be told, I ofttimes wonder how Stannis ever got that ugly daughter of his. He goes to his marriage bed like a man marching to a battlefield, with a firm look in his eyes and a determination to do his duty.

George R R Martin

#78. Homosexuality is nature's way of keeping the population in check.

Abhijit Naskar

#79. The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce.

Cokie Roberts

#80. The names they gave were false ones, though the vows they made were true.

Leigh Bardugo

#81. A real friendship is like a marriage: for richer and poorer, for better and for worse. If the moment of truth comes, and you can't bear to make a sacrifice, what kind of friend are you?

Sean Stewart

#82. Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can't lay this one stupid brick down, you ain't never gonna have a house baby, and it's cold outside.

Greg Behrendt

#83. There is a perfect marriage. Any marriage counselor can tell you that.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#84. I would tell my 14 year old self to never ever, ever put all of your money in one bank account. And love the ones who love you back. You're going to want to quit ... DON'T! Oh, and get everything in writing.

Brandi L. Bates