Quotes About Fidelity In Marriage

#1. Fidelity in marriage requires self-will and self-denial.

Philip Zaleski

#2. Unfaithfulness to the marriage vow can never be justified.

Dr. J. Otis Yoder

#3. It is in the very nature of conjugal love to be definitive. The lasting union expressed by the marriage vows is more than a formality or a traditional formula; it is rooted in the natural inclinations of the human person. For believers, it is also a covenant before God that calls for fidelity.

Pope Francis

#4. Thank God (my wife) and I were both born poor
so the concept of fidelity was allowed to take root in us.

Allan Wolf

#5. Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

Carla Bruni

#6. I believe it is the woman in the relationship that drives the relationship to what she wants it to be

Lori Colombo-Dunham

#7. I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man. I think the ship has sailed and I think the church needs
I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.

Rob Bell

#8. I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principal duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or marry themselves, have no business with the partners or wives of their neighbours.

Jane Austen

#9. Personally, I know nothing about sex, because I have always been married.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

#10. Well, that brings us to the point: There is only one way to protect ourselves from the deadly diseases that stalk the human family. It is abstinence before marriage, then marriage and mutual fidelity for life to an uninfected partner.

James C. Dobson

#11. When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner 'til death do you part.'

Mark Udall

#12. I felt God had conned me by telling me to marry Grace, and allowed Grace to rule over me since she was controlling our sex life. I loved Grace, but in the bedroom I did not enjoy her and wondered how many years I could white-knuckle fidelity.

Mark Driscoll

#13. Fidelity to one's marriage vows is absolutely essential for love, trust and peace

Ezra Taft Benson

#14. Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely.

Kay Goodstadt

#15. I don't see the point in marriage: if you make a commitment, you make a commitment. Fidelity is important to me; it's about honouring that commitment.

Greg Wise

#16. Men (who cheat) do not cheat because they are dogs. They are (regarded as) dogs because they cheat.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#17. The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

Dan Savage

#18. I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.

Pierre Corneille

#19. Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages.

Frank Pittman

#20. If you're willing to live in a cardboard box on the streets with him, then marry him.

Lori Colombo-Dunham

#21. The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.

Ezra Taft Benson

#22. There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional child rearing, and has survived.

Pat Roberts

#23. If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.

George Carey

#24. Fidelity in a sad marriage can fairly be described as an act of faith.

Stephen L. Carter

#25. Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

Jean Giraudoux

#26. I believe in marriage and fidelity.

Gloria Vanderbilt

#27. We shouldn't just allow gay marriage. We should insist on gay marriage. We should regard it as scandalous that two people could claim to love each other and not want to sanctify their love with marriage and fidelity.

David Brooks

#28. Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.

Max Frisch

#29. Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over preserving an actual marriage.

Dan Savage

#30. Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.

Jonathan Sacks

#31. Do we really mean it when we say 'in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, until death do us part or do we add a silent clause, 'unless you shame me or disappoint me?' What is the cost of unconditional love and how capable are we of giving that?

Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker

#32. No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.

Anthony Kennedy

#33. It started with feelings of jealousy and like a mental virus it spread.

Dermot Davis