Quotes About Respect In Marriage

#1. Marriage is built on trust and respect, and when that's gone, it's like sticking dynamite under the foundation of a house and expecting it to go on standing.

Carolyn Brown

#2. Again, our marriage problems are not really marriage problems. They are heart problems. They are God problems. Our lack of intimacy with God causes a void that we try to fill with the frailest of substitutes. Like wealth or pleasure. Like fame or respect. Like people. Like marriage.

Francis Chan

#3. I have a lot of respect for marriage.

Dominic Monaghan

#4. There is nothing spiritual about a marriage that uses guilt, blame, shame or religious manipulations to keep a relationship together.

Shannon L. Alder

#5. I respect marriage, and I think it's beautiful that people do it. But for me, more important than anything is having a peaceful life and a peaceful home.

Camila Alves

#6. There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil
improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?"
"Are you a young lady?"
"I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.

Charlotte Bronte

#7. Marriage and family are certainly beautiful parts of life, but I believe those things can truly be appreciated only when we find, love, and respect ourselves first.

Holly Madison

#8. I respect the courts, but the Supreme Court is only that
the supreme of the courts. It is not the supreme being. It cannot overrule God, when it comes to prayer, when it comes to life, and when it comes to the sanctity of marriage, the court cannot change what God has created.

Mike Huckabee

#9. Here's the thing: you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self, but in a guy, you would totally, completely, absolutely want to be with him.

Tracy McMillan

#10. Here in USA we respect someone's rights, and as we profess tolerance, we shouldn't change - or have to change - our basic views on the sanctity of marriage. I believe in the sanctity of marriage. I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution, between a man and a woman.

George W. Bush

#11. 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

#12. A righteous wife is a respectful wife.

Habeeb Akande

#13. Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.

Peter Ustinov

#14. The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

Gerrit Smith

#15. Learning how to fight properly and deciding what to fight about are two of the secrets to a successful marriage. It usually comes down to the "line of respect" one way or the other.

James C. Dobson

#16. As husband and wife, to have a happy life together, you must have confidence and respect, and you must have substantial agreement in your faith.

Billy Graham

#17. True respect means accepting someone and honoring his or her thoughts and feelings.

Chana Levitan

#18. Respect is more valuable then the amount of times guys flirt with you.
It's better to have one trustworthy real man then any amount of boys interested in you.
The "cool" guys may not notice or date you but the right one will marry you.

Rachel Hamilton

#19. I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great.

Mary J. Blige

#20. A good marriage is loving someone in a lot of different circumstances. Respect for them and their views and ideas and the life that they're leading with you. Shared values and interests. A good sense of humour. And a little volatility along the way.

Edward Kennedy

#21. So many men treat their wives badly, or indifferently, or with barely contained impatience. Josh doesn't mind
no that's not right
he insists on openly showing his love and respect for me.

Lynn Morris

#22. You can't sit back. My husband and I have made the choice that our marriage is the most important thing to us. We respect what we have and understand how we need to feed it.

Faith Hill

#23. Marriage is the most sacred union in which much respect is given in society to those who treat it as such.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#24. It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

Jasmine Guy

#25. How the hell am I supposed to respect someone who sold herself to the highest bidder?" he growled with tight control, and she gasped, stung. "I have no respect for you, Theresa, not even as the potential mother of my child, because, quite frankly, you can't even do that right.

Natasha Anders

#26. Marriage gives you a new respect for a person.

Katharine McPhee

#27. I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

Mark Ruffalo

#28. If you do get married, get a prenup. It's not about money at all. It's about having a document that states how you'll dissolve your marriage while you still have a shred of respect for each other.

Alec Baldwin

#29. Her source of self respect was that she had not - as she put it - given up and crawled into safety somewhere. Into a safe marriage.

Doris Lessing

#30. Marry for love. But also choose to marry a man or woman who you love that treats you with the ultimate respect for your expression of who you are at your very core.

Julieanne O'Connor

#31. Their respect for the mystery
the half-grasped but never spoken idea that maybe, when you got right down to the place where the cheese binds, there is no such thing as marriage, no such thing as union, that each soul stood alone and ultimately defied rationality. That was the mystery.

Stephen King

#32. The Church has always advised against birth control and that is the only position the Church can take in view of our beliefs with respect to the eternity of the marriage covenant and the purpose of this divine relationship.

Hugh B. Brown

#33. I respect a woman who can respect me when I'm not around.

Mark W. Boyer

#34. Clear communication. Respect. A lot of laughter. And a lot of orgasms. That's what makes a marriage work.

Dr. Dre

#35. (Regarding Marriage) Both people need to care deeply about the other person, to put the other's needs before their own, and to make a daily commitment to that person to stick it out.

Alessandra Torre

#36. I need to find people who I respect so I can respect them, and they'll like being respected so they'll respect me, and that's like a marriage.

Judd Apatow

#37. Marriage: that is what I call the will by two for creating the one who is more than those who created it. Respect for one another I call marriage, and respect for the one who wills such a willing. Let

Friedrich Nietzsche

#38. Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.

Todd Tiahrt

#39. You can believe I took you to be my wife. To honor, respect and protect, for all the days of our life.

Mira Lyn Kelly

#40. We loved each other and sometimes we loved other people, but we had no respect for the institution of marriage.

Alice Becker-Ho

#41. 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

#42. Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

Amy Grant

#43. I know you're in love, but don't let any man steamroll you. When all is said and done, marriage is about respect and compromise, but that doesn't mean you can't make a stand now and then for what's important. Remember that, Chelle. When love is right, it makes you stronger, not weaker." "Yes,

Ruth Cardello

#44. Love is a combination of friendship, passion, and respect.

John Glenn

#45. I am one of those who can realize themselves fully and bloom only when they form part of a couple. Even though I understand your stand, even though I respect the choice of liberated women, I have never conceived of happiness outside of marriage.

Mariama Ba

#46. Marriage is an expression of love and respect and trust and faith in the future, but the union of husband and wife is also an alliance against the challenges and tragedies of life, a promise that with me in your corner, you will never stand alone.

Dean Koontz

#47. But at the bottom of all the gloom, there is a sense that we are responsible for each other
if not for each other's happiness. There is empathy, admiration, respect for the other's intelligence and honesty.

Erica Jong

#48. I want to focus on the importance of supporting marriage. I always speak about the need to respect everyone's human dignity - regardless of their sexual orientation. I think strengthening marriage is something that benefits everyone.

Salvatore J. Cordileone

#49. Mutual respect, the soft answer, financial honesty with the Lord, prayer. "I do not hesitate to promise that if you will go to your homes and cultivate and nurture it among these four cornerstones, your lives will be happy."

Gordon B. Hinckley

#50. Ma wrong about one thing. When I was girl, she only talk about love in the marriage. [ ... ] Nobody tell me what make real marriage
respect.

Thrity Umrigar

#51. I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

Colin Powell

#52. I don't respect my husband because he is the man and I am the woman, and it's my "place" to submit to him. I respect Dan because he is a good person, and because he has made me a better person too.

Rachel Held Evans

#53. Her marriage to Leonce Pontellier was purely an accident, in this respect resembling many other marriages which masquerade as the decrees of Fate.

Kate Chopin

#54. 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

#55. With all due respect," Christopher muttered, "this conversation is leading nowhere. At least one of you should point out that Beatrix deserves a better man."
"That's what I said about my wife," Leo remarked. "Which is why I married her before she could find one.

Lisa Kleypas

#56. People will always want intimacy with one chosen person and you cannot have intimacy without privacy, which is why couples draw circles of privacy around themselves. They demand that family, neighbors and the law respect their union, and that is why we have marriage.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#57. ... evangelicals were instrumental in advancing the ideal of companionate marriage, one built on shared faith and mutual affection, a revolutionary notion in an era in which forced marriages were a not-so-distant memory.

Karen Swallow Prior

#58. The only really sound marriages are those based on mutual respect.

Billy Graham

#59. Though this marriage is a sham, what we share tonight will be real, my lady. I said I'd treat you wi' the same respect I'd show my own true bride, and I meant it. I'd no' be able to call myself a Scotsman if I let you walk across this threshold.

Pamela Clare

#60. A husband should always try to treat his wife with the greatest courtesy and respect, holding her in the highest esteem. He should speak to her in a kind and a soft manner, showing his love by word and deed. As she feels this love and tenderness she will mirror it and return it tenfold.

James E. Faust

#61. We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.

Kate Mulgrew

#62. Marriage and especially the ceremony which announces it, the wedding ... That is how we say to the world, 'These two are now a family, and with this joining our families are joined, too. And you had damned well better respect that.

Eileen Wilks

#63. There are four pillars to a happy marriage: respect one another as individuals; (give) soft answers; (practice)financial honesty; (conduct) family prayer.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#64. All due respect to the Resurrection, but two-becoming-one might be the greatest miracle ever.

Jen Hatmaker

#65. Tenderness and respect-never selfishness-must be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife

Howard W. Hunter

#66. Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Bette Davis

#67. Had my father loved my mother? He never spoke of her. I always imagined a traditional marriage between them--one built with the strong bones of respect, but stripped of the soft skin of love.

Kay Honeyman

#68. I'm very close to my parents. I admire them and respect them enormously. But my childhood unfortunately coincided with the end of their marriage. They are two people who should never, ever have got married.

Jackie French

#69. The foundation of a marriage is love. The walls of a shared life are built with trust, loyalty, and respect. Once those are torn down, there's nothing left standing.

Adriana Locke

#70. What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.

Dean Koontz