Quotes About Eternal Marriage

#1. The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

Baron De Montesquieu

#2. Love pays attention. Love listens to the fears and the doubts of others and treats them with respect. Love accepts others the way Jesus accepts you.

Rick Warren

#3. It is clear that any sexual relationship other than that between a legally wedded heterosexual husband and wife is sinful. The divine mandate of marriage between man and woman puts in perspective why homosexual acts are offensive to God. They repudiate the gift and the Giver of eternal life.

Victor L. Brown

#4. A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.

William Shakespeare

#5. The ultimate purpose of every teaching, every activity in the Church is that parents and their children are happy at home, sealed in an eternal marriage, and linked to their generations.

Boyd K. Packer

#6. I try not to read the Internet because it's mostly just a sea of hatred.

Will Gluck

#7. God has brought us together as families to bring to pass His eternal purposes. We are part of this plan in this marriage relationship. let us love and respect and honor one another. We can do it, and we will be the better for it.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#8. The sweet companionship of eternal marriage is one of the greatest blessings God has granted to His children.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#9. Eternal-mindedness keeps us from silly arguments. There's no time to fight. We have better things to pursue than our interests. Too much is at stake! God created us for a purpose. We can't afford to waste our lives. We can't afford to waste our marriage by merely pursuing our own happiness.

Francis Chan

#10. Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

George Eliot

#11. Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise.

Swami Vivekananda

#12. We make no greater voluntary choice in this life than the selection of a marriage partner. This decision can bring eternal happiness and joy. To find sublime fulfillment in marriage, both partners need to be fully committed to the marriage.

James E. Faust

#13. You have to choose what you want to be.
You have to choose your own path in life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. I don't know about this here eternal marriage business. But it seems to me that if you can't live with the sons-of-bitches on earth the Lord won't force you to remain with them in heaven.

J. Golden Kimball

#15. Marriage ... is the most glorious and most exalting principle of the gospel of Jesus Christ. No ordinance is of more importance and none more sacred and more necessary to the eternal joy of man. Faithfulness to the marriage covenant brings the fullest joy here and glorious rewards hereafter.

Ezra Taft Benson

#16. I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

David Eagleman

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

Katherine Mansfield

#18. When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage - in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#19. This book could not have been written without the people of Mongolia, who allowed me to live among them for a time and who taught me their history over salted tea and vodka while the winter eased into spring.

Conn Iggulden

#20. People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast.

Sherwood Anderson

#21. If you don't know why you're apologizing, your apology probably sucks.

Holly Black

#22. Whatever you are aiming at in life, willpower is one of your most important resources.

Frank Martela

#23. No way! Everyone knows he's in love with that Raven girl. But get this. I saw that ghost guy at the movies last Friday. Alone. Who goes to a movie by himself?" "Only a loony loser crazy person," Josie said.

Ellen Schreiber

#24. Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins with friendship and then ripens into romance and eventually marriage will usually become an enduring, eternal friendship.

Marlin K. Jensen

#25. If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#26. Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.

Bill Gates

#27. I was basically a broke student, and I moved to Asia and was making some money to go back to school. One thing led to another, and I was supposed to stay two months, but it ended up being eight years. It was the best mistake I ever made.

Maggie Q

#28. It's the eternal tragedy of being gay in Bombay," I lamented. "Never a place to yourself." With city rents so high, most sons lived with their parents until marriage - and usually well after as well.

Manil Suri

#29. Life is fleeting," Samuel said. "A short leap, in the eye of the Eternal, from dust to dust. May you pass it together.

Eric Corder

#30. All the beaches of the world, could never amount to, nor implore the one grain of sand that I stand on, which is your love.

Anthony Liccione

#31. I can move both of my eyes separately in different directions.

Corbin Bleu

#32. O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent

Robert Burns

#33. What the restored gospel brings to the discussion on marriage and family is so large and so relevant that it cannot be overstated: we make the subject eternal!

L. Tom Perry

#34. If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#35. He planted marriage among humans as yet another signpost pointing to his own eternal, spiritual existence.

Gary L. Thomas