Top 100 Quotes About Living Together Before Marriage
#1. Do not believe that living together before marriage guarantees the future. By burning certain stages, you risk burning love itself. Time needs to be respected gradually, just like the expressions of love.
Pope Benedict XVI
#2. I'm not a big advocate of living together before marriage. It can be the right thing, but it can also leave two people stuck together who haven't figured out what they really want out of the relationship.
Emily Yoffe
#3. God is more interested in restoring our hearts to Him, than giving us a happy marriage.
Ngina Otiende
#4. The real mystery of marriage is not that husband and wife love each other so much that they can recognize God in each other's lives, but more because God loves them so much that they can discover each other more and more as living reminder's of God's presence.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#5. The First and Worst sin couples commit against one another is not adultery but Negligence because it's Negligence that breeds adultery..watch it couples , do not hold back in giving that care and attention.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#7. Anyone who believes we're living in a postfeminist age will learn that violence against females - from female infanticide and child marriage to honor killings and sex trafficking - has now produced a world with fewer females than males, a first in recorded history.
Gloria Steinem
#8. When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him; they're concerned about their daughter's tummy.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#10. It's the difference between having a couple of dates, dating for a few months, or having a marriage and living together for eight years or so. It's easy to look back fondly on the ones that were somewhat short.
Brigid Brannagh
#11. Marriage is a framework to preserve friendship. It is valuable because it gives much more room to develop than just living together. It provides a base from which a person can work at understanding himself and another person.
Robertson Davies
#12. 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
#13. At our age, surely there are better things to sustain us, to sustain a marriage, than the brief flame of passion?" ... "You are mistaken, Ernest," she said at last. "There is only the passionate spark. Without it, two people living together may be lonelier than if they lived quite alone.
Helen Simonson
#14. The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#15. I look upon Virginia as a rib taken from Britain's side ... While they both proceed as living under the marriage-compact, this Eve might thrive so long as her Adam flourishes. Whatever serpent shall tempt her to go astray etc [will only cause] her husband to rule more strictly over her.
Alexander Spotswood
#16. Many conflicts in a marriage result from living to please self instead of living to please the Lord. These conflicts can be resolved and are actually opportunities for spiritual growth when dealt with in a biblical manner.
John C. Broger
#17. 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
#18. Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short ... was she happy? Not for a moment.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#19. It took so long to find you ... and now I don't want it to change. I want it all set in amber. I want us and nobody else in the most selfish way you can imagine. I can't help it
I'm old-fashioned. I believe marriage is between a man and a man.
Armistead Maupin
#20. Dating is a man-made ideology: if having a lover was a prerequisite to living, one would either be in a relationship, or, six feet under.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#21. Marriage is an ongoing thing, man. You continue to work at it. But it's joyful. And joyous. I don't care if people are living without a marriage certificate. It's just about people, in some way, saying to each other, 'I commit to you. I will help you in this life.'
James McAvoy
#22. You cannot begin to understand the failure of marriage - or the living of these ideas commitment or covenant - without considering and factoring in the devaluing of fatherhood. The two are inextricably linked and dependent.
H. Kirk Rainer
#23. Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church.
Christopher West
#24. 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
#25. For in marriage a little licence,a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and she him.
Virginia Woolf
#26. A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
Robert A. Heinlein
#27. I look around at everybody laughing and joking together and struggle to understand my life has become a living hell that nobody present could even begin to imagine
B.A. Paris
#28. Women who say that they have met the most amazing guy in the world are only saying that because they haven't lived with them yet.
Heather Chapple
#29. I've married a man who is so afraid of living, he'd rather destroy the very thing that makes him feel alive.
Susan May Warren
#30. Living with myself wasn't all that easy. I was not the young girl I once was. Once upon a time when I looked in the mirror, I saw this happy glow. Now nothing glowed except the leftover face cream from the night before.
Brenda Perlin
#32. America, land of coupling, land of sanctioned marriage and two-person twined knots, land of tireless good-citizen living, land of the happy family, land of the free and the brave and the locked imagination, land of ignorant homeowner masses lined up in twos.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#33. Men marry women hoping they'll never change. Women marry men hoping they will.
David Mitchell
#34. We are members of God's family. One faith, one hope and one baptism.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#35. When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
Helen Rowland
#36. Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
Oscar Wilde
#37. Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages, whether it's living together, or being with six partners, or dedicating your life to taking care of flowers.
Sandra Bullock
#38. Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!
Phyllis Bottome
#39. My time in heaven was up, and I was being told I wasn't the marrying kind by someone who undresses for a living.
Chelsea Handler
#40. Being with you is like living a dream.
Auliq Ice
#42. That it is not same-gender relationships that are destroying marriage. What is actually destroying marriage is high unemployment, incarceration, a lack of education and ministers living in contradiction where they speak about holiness on one side but yet are living in adultery on the other.
Otis Moss III
#43. Living together is an art. It's a patient art, it's a beautiful art, it's fascinating.
Pope Francis
#44. In countries where there is no marriage, there is no duty between husband and wife; when marriage comes, husband and wife live together on account of attachment; and that kind of living together becomes settled after generations; and when it becomes so settled, it becomes a duty.
Swami Vivekananda
#46. You are your partner are on the same side - it's the side of the living.
Jesse Petersen
#47. The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.
Olivia Wilde
#48. For me, personally, marriage is a man and a woman living together.
Angela Merkel
#49. 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
#50. I have to let myself be vulnerable in order to have a good marriage. That's something I'm really going to have to work on. A lot of times I'm really guarded because of what I do for a living, what I've done in my life.
John Rzeznik
#51. Marriage is the hardest way to get a living.
Fanny Fern
#52. It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.
Osamu Dazai
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature
Josephine Hart
#56. We do not fight to tear down but to build up.
Lisa Bevere
#57. In marriage, God rarely starts with the issues on the table. He starts with the ones in our hearts
Ngina Otiende
#58. If you want a happy Christ-centered marriage, you must be centered in Christ!
Ngina Otiende
#59. It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part.
David Thewlis
#60. 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
#61. People who simply live their life and care only about bearing children are under the influence of a misbelief that they are people
Sunday Adelaja
#62. People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it's really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other's pockets; of it being a relationship, a marriage, a family.
Dean Wareham
#64. This is one secret in living with the loved one. That is, it doesn't try to change the other party.
Jacques Chardonne
#65. Marriage is not just about love and living together. It's much more complicated, especially when you are going to be making a family.
Laura Schlessinger
#66. Did you ever hear the one about how every living woman dies three times? Once when she is seduced of her virginity, once when she is seduced of her freedom (I believe they call it marriage), and once when she is seduced of her husband.
James Jones
#67. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, a family is defined as two or more people living together who are related by birth, marriage or adoption. In other words, the U.S. Census Bureau is run by radical leftists. Why do you think there's a whole category for the unemployed?
Stephen Colbert
#68. I'm not looking for a husband or marriage or not not looking for that stuff. I'm living, not thinking what I should or shouldn't be doing with my life.
Cameron Diaz
#69. I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal.
Debra Messing
#70. The reason why women think men should spend a lot of money on an engagement ring is because women are the ones who get to clean up all the poop (stains and toilet bowl swirls included) that is provided by every family member living in the house until they die.
Heather Chapple
#72. I've done a lot of Fox shows since then - Married with Children, Living Single and a whole bunch of other Fox things.
Gilbert Gottfried
#73. We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
Pope Benedict XVI
#75. If there is to be any romance in marriage woman must be given every chance to earn a decent living at other occupations. Otherwise no man can be sure that he is loved for himself alone, and that his wife did not come to the Registry Office because she had no luck at the Labour Exchange.
Rebecca West
#76. Marriage is made not in ritual or in words but in the living of it.
Diana Gabaldon
#78. I can think of no more dangerous a position than to learn to tolerate evil in order to become accustomed to reality.
Sarah Mally
#79. It's like people always say, Well, does sport teach you anything in life? It teaches you certain things, but it doesn't teach you other things. It doesn't teach, as I say, very much about marriage, very much about how to make a living, any of those things.
George Plimpton
#80. It's interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It's as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help.
Donald Miller
#81. All partnerships fail in the end, just like marriages. The only life after death any human being will ever know is staying in a marriage or a partnership after it's over. And that's not life - it's living death.
Greg Iles
#82. I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a child up into the world, fail at marriage and try again, teach and fail, travel and fall, become ill, well again, weak but grateful, you learn patience, forbearance.
Dorianne Laux
#83. Each marriage is a living thing, just as complex as the two individuals within it.
Penny Reid
#84. 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
#85. The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep
A.P. Herbert
#86. The most precious gift to give to your spouse is not your life because if you die,he/she will no longer have use of you rather the most precious gift is your time, attention, affection, self and love!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#87. And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
Tertullian
#88. Before building any relationship, think on how your partner could be the best companion to you in achieving your life's earnest goals
Rajasaraswathii
#90. A sacrament
like marriage
means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.
Jodi Picoult
#91. I'm the person that I always was, but in terms of how I approach my living, I'm not the same person at all. At all. I've buried a child, I've ended a marriage, and the grandson that I was raising is now grown. My family has totally shifted.
Iyanla Vanzant
#92. In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house ...
Virginia Woolf
#94. O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.
Fanny Fern
#95. Identifying the purpose of your living is more important than creating a family and having children
Sunday Adelaja
#96. It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.
Agnes Macphail
#97. Working-class and poor women are also living outside of marriage, at even higher rates than their more privileged peers. When it comes to unmarried women and money, the unprecedented economic opportunity enjoyed by a few is a small fraction of a far more complicated story.
Rebecca Traister
#98. God does not call us to something without equipping us to do it. He faithfully gives us everything we need to walk with Him into the abundant life.
Angel H. Davis
#99. If your relationship is draining your energy, making you lose yourself and taking your attention away from God, then you are not in a relationship but a cult. You are busy creating an idol (mini-God) for yourself.
Kemi Sogunle
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