Quotes About A Healthy Marriage

#1. A healthy marriage is the union of two already complete people who choose to invest in each other. Two people who drain each other because they have nothing to invest - only withdrawals to take from each other - make for a very unhealthy, unfulfilling relationships.

Shannon Ethridge

#2. More than any other attribute of Jesus, his humility is the key to a healthy marriage. If two people make it their goal to imitate the humility of Christ, everything else will take care of itself.

Francis Chan

#3. The land's fruitfulness is the "natural" consequence of covenant faithfulness enacted on both sides, Israel's and God's. A productive land is a gift something like a child to a healthy marriage; in each case, thriving results from and witnesses to long-sustained faithfulness between two partners.

Ellen F. Davis

#4. It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

Meg Ryan

#5. Most marriage problems are not really marriage problems, they are God problems. They can be traced back to one, or both, having a poor relationship with God, or a faulty understanding of him. An accurate picture of God is vital to a healthy marriage. It's vital to everything.

Francis Chan

#6. Love is the only flame that set the soul on fire.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Personally I'm an advocate for healthy marriages and families and I do a lot of speaking around the country sharing my faith and talking to women's groups, even specifically about marriage.

Candace Cameron

#8. A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables."

James Dobson

#9. I grew up with a front-row seat to what a happy, healthy marriage looks like. Never perfect, constantly evolving, always united.

Shonda Rhimes

#10. I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be.

Anna Kendrick

#11. The secret to a long and healthy marriage is to work at it and don't try and change each other.

Jack LaLanne

#12. Love is the soul food!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

#14. The key to a long and healthy marriage is that, honestly, there's nothing worth fighting about.

Jay Leno

#15. For a healthy society, those laws and conventions should always support marriage as an institution characterised by an openness to children and the responsibility of fathers and mothers remaining together to care for children born into their family.

Vincent Nichols

#16. But the closer I got to my own marriage and maternity, the more I felt like I was only as praiseworthy as my healthy womb. Why was I the only one who seemed to see it this way?

Megan McCafferty

#17. Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks.

Jennifer Crusie

#18. Miracles still happen today ... A healed marriage. A healthy family. A job you love. Every one of us has been a witness to a whole host of miracles ... let Him have a chance to work a miracle in your life once again.

Karen Kingsbury

#19. Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers with the collapse of the relationship of the couple who brings a child into the world.

William J Doherty

#20. Marriages don't end simply because a lack of trust exists. Marriages more specifically end because foundational agreements were broken, disrespectful behavior occurred, healthy and honest communication is lacking, or not "being seen or accepted" has ensued for too long.

Elaina Marie

#21. You shouldn't end a band like Westlife and not be financially secure to some extent, but I wasn't at all - it was the complete opposite. But you look at stuff then, 'Well, what do I have? I don't have money but I have a great marriage, three healthy kids, and I have my voice. I'll just start again.'

Shane Filan

#22. I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.

Carson Daly

#23. Your marriage will only be as healthy as the least healthy one of you.

Rob Bell

#24. Although my marriage left me with three beautiful children, it also left me with a healthy dose of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and an extreme desire to be loved again. I was operating on empty, expecting to be paid in full.

Niecy Nash

#25. I feel that we can't educate children who are not healthy, and we can't keep them healthy if they're not educated. There has to be a marriage between health and education. You can't learn if your mind is full of unhealthy images from daily life and confusion about right and wrong.

Joycelyn Elders

#26. Get yourself healthy before you get yourself married. Too often we bring our unexamined selves into our marriage relationship. Also, have a cultivating commitment to have a quality relationship with each other in your marriage.

Neil Clark Warren