Top 100 Quotes About Christian Marriage
#1. Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial ... C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#2. In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.
R.C. Sproul
#3. Christian marriage is the great example of a real and irrevocable result; and that is why it is the chief subject and centre of all our romantic writing.
G.K. Chesterton
#4. I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.
Princess Margaret
#5. 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
#6. Christian marriage is that sacrament which builds up the community of the Church and of society. Marriage has been inscribed in creation's design by God, and, by his grace, countless Christian men and women have lived married life fully.
Pope Francis
#7. God is building a mighty army to vanquish the forces of darkness. These soldiers of the light are initially conceived and nurtured in the wombs of women. As such, an obvious strategy for the devil would be to sabotage the womb to cut down the size of this godly army.
Theresa Pecku-Laryea
#8. When you cease to blame your spous eand own the problem as yours, you are then empowered to make changes to solve your problem.
Henry Cloud
#9. Repentance is the first step on the path back to your relationship with God.
Jim George
#10. The goal of Christian dating is not to have a boyfriend or girlfriend but to find a spouse. Have that in mind as you get to know one an- other, and if you're not ready to commit to a relationship with the end goal of marriage, it's better not to date but simply to remain friends.
Mark Driscoll
#11. Communication is not a one-way street.
Jim George
#12. I won't give my heart to another girl until God shows me it's my wife.
Eric Ludy
#14. I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.
Jimmy Carr
#15. True Christians are not bigoted and this is actually not a matter of equality, no matter how often it is referred to as equal marriage. Civil partnerships are equal to marriage - they might not have the same name but they are equal.
Robert Flello
#16. You can make your marriage a little bit of heaven on earth by following God's plan of teamwork.
Jim George
#17. The real heroes of the Wish Factory are the young men and women who wait like Vladimir and Estragon wait for Godot and good Christian girls wait for marriage.
John Green
#18. I think the gay community should get smart and drop the word 'marriage.' Do you really need to change every right-wing Christian to make sure you get your equal rights? Eyes on the prize, we should be sticking to getting equal rights.
Ani DiFranco
#19. Arguments escalate when we want to be right more than we want to be CHRIST. It's easy to get blinded in the heat of disagreement. Soon, all we want is to win. Even if victory requires sin. The one who wins the argument is usually the one who acts LESS like Christ.
Francis Chan
#20. Christians lost the battle in the public square over gay marriage because, frankly, we were outthought, outfought, and outmarketed on the issue.
Robert Jeffress
#22. Back in high school, once she suspected that I was probably not a Christian, she did not break up with me as she should have.
Mark Driscoll
#23. 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
#24. God lures us into marriage through love and sex and loneliness, or simply the fact that someone finally paid attention - all those reasons that you got married in the first place. It doesn't really matter, he'll do whatever it takes. He lures us into marriage and then he uses it to transform us.
John Eldredge
#25. A Christian is never dependent on the response of others to grow spiritually. It's our own heart's decisions that matter
Gary L. Thomas
#26. Being brought up in a Christian home and still identifying as Christian, I get pretty annoyed with the Christian lobbies around the world who say gay marriage destroys the family and all that kind of rubbish. They claim to follow someone who always stood up for the oppressed and marginalised.
David Pocock
#30. Leslie, don't you believe that I know who you will marry, and that I'm capable of leading you to that right man someday?
Leslie Ludy
#31. Marriage is a partnership between one man and one woman ... Nothing could be clearer in the Bible as to what constitutes a marriage in God's sight.
David Jeremiah
#34. Because marriage is meant to reflect the great sacrificial and sanctifying love Christ has for his church, it makes sense to connect your married life to a local Christian congregation.
Matt Chandler
#35. I decided to throw out everything I thought I knew about following Christ, being a woman, being a godly wife, masculinity, and marriage.
April Cassidy
#36. First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, 'It must be a good thing to fight for.'
Edmund White
#37. The virtues of your partner completes the goodness in you.
Christian Hunt
#38. When a minister or a clergyman takes seriously unfashionable Christian doctrines which condemn sex outside marriage, homosexuality, abortion, and feminism, and injects his views into the political debate, he is immediately denounced as a 'reactionary.'
Benjamin Hart
#39. As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.
Thomas Adams
#40. This is what I had always dreamed marriage would be... Everything was absolutely perfect... for three short days.
April Cassidy
#41. Making love is not equivalent to love. But not making love is most certainly a waste. We didn't want to be wasteful.
Fawn Weaver
#42. In its highest form, not judging is the ultimate act of forgiveness.
John Kuypers
#43. Nothing is more sweet than harmony in marriage, and nothing more distressing than dissension.
Martin Luther
#45. Don't treat your husband the way he deserves, but as Christ expects.
Ngina Otiende
#47. Marriage is a team effort. Grow closer to each other as you grow closer to God.
Jim George
#48. Marriage cannot thrive on left-over attention, it has to get your best effort!
Ngina Otiende
#49. On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between two logical views of the universe: the Catholic-Christian and the Individualistic Monist. And bridges are made to go over, not to stand upon.
Ellen Key
#51. A husband and wife honor God when they love and honor each other.
Jim George
#53. We are members of God's family. One faith, one hope and one baptism.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#54. While Kalila didn't quite know what she wanted, she knew what she didn't want. She didn't want to live a charade. She didn't want a marriage of convenience where you were together but alone.
Christian F. Burton
#56. Any part I do is a marriage of the words - what the playwright or producer or show runner's vision is - to how I would play it. It took me a while to get rid of 'Oh, they want it this way, so I'm going to do it how they want it.'
Christian Camargo
#57. No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!
T.D. Jakes
#61. Marriage problems are relationship problems, they are the result of how two people interact with each other. You may abandon a troubled marriage, but you will still bring the way you interact with others along with you.
Mark Gungor
#62. It is not love to ignore your spouse's sin, or brokenness, or immaturity.
John Eldredge
#63. Before you and your spouse can work as a team raising your children, you must first work as a team in your marriage.
Jim George
#64. Your commitment to follow God's plan makes a difference in the atmosphere in your home and improves the climate of your marriage.
Elizabeth George
#66. Marriage is more than finding the right person ... it is being the right person!
Elizabeth George
#67. An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or the cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning. One
C.S. Lewis
#68. A marriage filled with unconditional love experiences the depth of grace and mercy.
Elizabeth George
#69. As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.
Jim George
#70. Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.
Matt Taibbi
#72. Being "married for a mission" can revitalize a lot of marriages in which the partners think they suffer from a lack of compatibility; my suspicion is that many of these couples actually suffer from a lack of purpose.
Gary L. Thomas
#74. If you love someone, you don't act like they annoy you. You like them, and you try and make them think they're the most important person in the world to you.
Susan May Warren
#76. I want to grow old with you. I want your face to be the first thing I see in the morning and the last thing I see at night. I want to feel my children growing inside you. Sarah, my love. I want to worship the Lord with you, and hear your laughter until the day I die.
Tessa Afshar
#77. Don't let anyone sell you on the idea that anything (apart from the Lord Himself) is more important than your marriage. God means for your life and your marriage to be filled with passion and purpose.
Elizabeth George
#78. The closer a husband is to God, the closer he will grow to his wife.
Jim George
#79. To last, a marriage and family must be built on love - love for God, and love for one another.
Elizabeth George
#81. How the Idolatry of Christian Same-Sex Marriage Advocates Takes Two General Forms
Joe Carter
#82. Marriage is sacred intimacy. The husband must love, feed and care for the family. The wife must love, respect and submit to the husband.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#83. This is why the "apply some principles" approach to marriage improvement doesn't work. So long as we choose to turn a blind eye to how we are fallen as men or women, and to the unique style of relating that we have forged out of our sin and brokenness, we will continue to do damage to our marriages.
John Eldredge
#86. 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
#87. Love may start out as a good feeling, but to love someone long-term is an act of the will.
Elizabeth George
#88. Sex is not about genitalia. It's about relationship. When God said 'the two shall become one flesh,' he didn't mean it only physically.
Sheila Wray Gregoire
#90. It's all right to have expectations in marriage. Just remember to keep them at the feet of Jesus, not at the feet of your spouse
Ngina Otiende
#91. Your ultimate goal for marriage is that both of you - as husband and wife - commit to keep growing spiritually.
Elizabeth George
#92. We do not fight to tear down but to build up.
Lisa Bevere
#93. In marriage, God rarely starts with the issues on the table. He starts with the ones in our hearts
Ngina Otiende
#94. I don't think Christians should use birth control. You consummate your marriage as often as you like - and if you have babies, you have babies.
Randall Terry
#95. I'm a writer. I'm a Christian. I like sex. But I haven't had it. I believe in waiting until marriage. But that doesn't mean I want my characters to.
Michelle N. Onuorah
#96. If you want a happy Christ-centered marriage, you must be centered in Christ!
Ngina Otiende
#97. 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
#98. God wants to see human beings, not ghosts who shun the world ... Our marriage must be a 'yes' to God's earth. It must strengthen our resolve to do and accomplish something on earth. I fear that Christians who venture to stand on earth on only one leg will stand in heaven on only one leg too.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#100. God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he comes to us in this world there would be these powerful words and images to describe the promises and the pleasures of our covenant relationship with him through Christ.
John Piper
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