Top 100 Spouse Marriage Quotes
#1. Intimacy is about sharing something with your spouse that you don't share with anybody else. It's letting him in. It's laughing together. And it's also feeling that deep hunger for each other!
Sheila Wray Gregoire
#2. Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.
Francis Bacon
#3. 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
#4. Most people, when they are looking for a spouse, are looking for a finished statue when they should be looking for a wonderful block of marble. Not so you can create the kind of person you want, but rather because you see what kind of person Jesus is making.
Kathy Keller
#5. True marriage requires you to love your spouse even when you don't feel loved and respected.
Marita Kinney
#6. Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.
Lionel Shriver
#7. Not Eve:
Under any condition, in any situation, a mature woman does not need to be checked by her man. She is not childish, but fully capable of [a] self check if she respects the wisdom given to her by The Most High; her name ain't Eve.
T.F. Hodge
#8. Before I go on selling the joy of working with your spouse, I should make something clear: Although we have a great marriage, it is as trying as anyone's.
Christa Miller
#9. There is a saying that bad traders divorce their spouse sooner than abandon their positions. Loyalty to ideas is not a good thing for traders, scientists - or anyone.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#10. What is more likely to lead to true marital satisfaction-getting a fallen spouse to change his or her ways, or changing your own focus so that you draw affirmation from a God who never disappoints, never turns you away?
Gary Thomas
#11. The continuation of her life was more than another day of breathing, but was the gift of another day of engagement with her beloved across the spectrum of all things.
Dan Simmons
#12. When you listen to your spouse, you are communicating non verbally that they are important to you.
Jim George
#13. It doesn't take long in marriage bedore you realize that your spouse doesn't share your instincts. At that point, either you worship God as sovereign and celebrate the different way of looking at the world that your spouse has blessed you with, or you dishonor him by trying to rewrite his story.
Paul David Tripp
#14. One does not marry to become a judge of the spouse's behavior. If a marriage license is mistaken for a hunting license and disapproval, punishment, and threat of withdrawal of love are employed as weapons, all one bags is one's own unhappiness.
Jo Coudert
#15. Use the darkness of your past to propel you to a brighter future.
Donata Joseph
#16. When you initiate romance in your marriage relationship, you communicate to your spouse that he or she is desirable to you.
Jimmy Evans
#17. Always strive to give your spouse the very best of yourself; not what's leftover after you have given your best to everyone else.
Dave Willis
#18. There is so much more to marriage than who makes the money. Some of the hardest parts don't come with a paycheck.
Michelle M. Pillow
#19. My wife divorced me because she could not trust me anymore.
I never want a divorce because I love and care about our daughter.
Toba Beta
#20. Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.
Timothy Keller
#21. Insanity is starting over a million times, expecting to feel the spark you never did the first time.
Shannon L. Alder
#22. We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time - inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse, or end our marriage over a dispute about changing a lightbulb.
Alain De Botton
#23. Thus, again, marriage is comprehensive in some basic ways, not in every sense. But the same holds of most revisionists' master principle: a spouse cannot be your "number one partner" in every activity, or your "soul-mate" in every domain.
Sherif Girgis
#24. Show physical affection. Nothing says "I love you" like bearing the entirety of your spouse's weight.
Jesse Petersen
#25. A spouse who gets angry at having been betrayed is evading a basic, tragic truth: that no one can be everything to another person.
Alain De Botton
#26. A good marriage is supposed to be one where each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better deal.
Anne Lamott
#27. You have to make a switch. Decide today to start appreciating your spouse's strengths and learn to downplay their weaknesses. If you do, your marriage will be filled with more peace, unity and love, and you'll see God bless your marriage in greater ways.
Joel Osteen
#28. For your love to stand the test of time, you must commit to behaviors that protect your marriage, in spite of how you feel about your spouse on that particular day.
Jennifer Jeanne Patterson
#29. The best of who you are is not from who you have in your life, rather who they helped you become because they loved you.
Shannon L. Alder
#30. There was a certain usefulness in having a husband whom most people could barely tolerate: it deflected envy, for one thing.
Amanda Craig
#31. And things don't change in a marriage until the spouse who is taking responsibility for a problem that is not hers decides to say or do something about it.
Henry Cloud
#32. It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.
Fulton J. Sheen
#33. the only combination that works for marriage is to make God the One and your spouse the two. When
Craig Groeschel
#34. Whoever marries an adulterer is foolish; whoever marries a contentious spouse will never rest. A righteous wife will make your home a heaven; an immoral husband will make your home a hell.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#35. You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#36. This woman enabled her husband to cheat, and she wasn't doing either one of them any favors. Instead of leaving him, she would take him home, scold him, and then carry on with business as usual. Inside though, she would be hurting.
No woman could love a cheater and not pay the price for it.
Rose Wynters
#37. Too many husbands and wives enter into marriage with the idea that their spouse exists for one purpose: to make them happy.
Billy Graham
#38. If you want to change the climate of your marriage immediately, start praying for your spouse
Justin Davis
#39. Marriage is not a reform school ... Instead of you reforming [your spouse], [he or she] will instead influence you.
Billy Graham
#40. A strong marriage requires loving your spouse even in those moments when they aren't being lovable; it means believing in them even when they struggle to believe in themselves.
Dave Willis
#41. When both you and your spouse actively focus on developing godly character qualities, the foundation of your marriage will be twice as strong.
Elizabeth George
#42. What keeps the marriage going is your commitment to your spouse's holiness.
Timothy Keller
#43. It's hard to say which I like more, the perfectly happy days or the hours right after we've ended a good fight.
Crystal Woods
#44. The difference between the right spouse and the wrong spouse is the difference between a soul mate and a cell mate.
R.A. Mathis
#45. Not long ago, someone who was dissatisfied with his or her spouse and wanted a divorce had to justify that decision. Today it's the opposite: If you're not fulfilled by your marriage, you have to justify staying in it, because of the tremendous cultural pressure to be good to one's self.
Anonymous
#46. We want to state this carefully: a spouse who is evil, distant, cruel, unloving, or abusive should not use this information to demand more sex from his wife without first dealing with his sin.
Mark Driscoll
#47. If you have more than one spouse,
you have more than one problem.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#48. Husbands make the best kinds of heroes. - Lisa JacobsonMarriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.
Jennifer E. Smith
#49. When a couple gets to the last stage, one or both partners may have an affair. But an affair is usually a symptom of a dying marriage, not the cause. The end of that marriage could have been predicted long before either spouse strayed.
John M. Gottman
#50. All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.
Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
#51. The reason there is so much misery in marriage is not that husbands and wives seek their own pleasure, but that they do not seek it in the pleasure of their spouses. The biblical mandate to husbands and wives is to seek your own joy in the joy of your spouse.
John Piper
#52. A marriage, willy-nilly, requires you to trust that your spouse will tell your story truthfully and lovingly when you are no longer around to tell it yourself.
Kate Braestrup
#53. Forget about trying to "fix" your spouse's flaws. Instead, focus your attention on aspects and characteristics that you enjoy most.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#54. Every kind of relationship needs encouragement from both parties. Be it marriage, dating, friendship, enmity etc.
Nike Thaddeus
#55. All we marrieds have a marriage chuckle. A marriage chuckle is a fake laugh you bring out when your spouse does something dumb that you have to pretend is charming. My
Helen Ellis
#56. I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good.
Gillian Flynn
#57. The more interest you show in your spouse, the more interest your spouse will show in you.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#58. She put on her lace collar. She put on her new hat and he never noticed; and he was happy without her.
Virginia Woolf
#59. The way you date(treat) your spouse, truly has an impact inside and outside of your marriage.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#60. When your ears hear and your eyes see the sin, weakness, or failure of your husband or wife, it is never an accident; it is always grace. God loves your spouse, and he is committed to transforming him or her by his grace, and he has chosen you to be one of his regular tools of change.
Paul David Tripp
#61. Please. Marriage is made of lies. Kind ones, mostly. Omissions. If you give voice to the things you think every day about your spouse, you'd crush them to paste. She never lied. Just never said.
Lauren Groff
#62. I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is thievery of the greatest sort.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#63. If your spouse wants to cheat on you, he or she will. This world is a haven of opportunities. But no matter what, in any relationship, one must never doubt the spouse
Jagdish Joghee
#64. Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.
Karan Johar
#65. You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
Omar Khayyam
#66. Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.
Fannie Flagg
#67. Creating a happy marriage begins with choosing the right spouse.
Fawn Weaver
#68. Surround your marriage with people who pull you toward your spouse.
Ted Lowe
#69. Marriage is not difficult ... It's dealing with the other person that makes it difficult ...
K.j. Force
#70. It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.
Jess C. Scott
#71. I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
Benjamin Spock
#72. When I get married I'm going to make the marriage work. Getting married is forever, no matter what my spouse does.
Sarah Mlynowski
#73. Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
Hendrik Hertzberg
#74. The grass is often no greener on the other side, so stick it out and see if you can grow up within the relationship. Find happiness and emotional independence within yourself before placing unreasonable and often unexpressed expectations on your spouse.
Malti Bhojwani
#75. 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
#76. A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.
Shannon L. Alder
#77. 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
#78. There was no such thing as a marriage with one happy spouse. Both must be or neither.
Sherry Thomas
#79. Only marriage combines all three forms of companionship - spouse is family, best friend, and permanent companion. This is why it is widely held that while the death of a child is the most painful loss, the death of a spouse is the most disorienting one.
Dennis Prager
#80. Place the needs and wants and the hopes and dreams of your spouse first. Anything and everything you do with and for the other accrues to a common account that pays huge dividends.
Richard Foth
#81. Little things spell LOVE. Beware the spouse or marriage that places a premium on expensive gifts and 'toys.
David R. Wommack
#83. It will always be foolish to ask a cheater if they would ever cheat on you.
Dennis Adonis
#84. One of the gifts of a long marriage is the ability to communicate anything - from mild displeasure to the meaning of life - with a single glance. It's something you develop in the process of mixing your soul with your spouse's, if you're willing to mix your soul.
Cody McFadyen
#85. While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.
Timothy Keller
#86. 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
#87. Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#88. Every romantic woman dreams of Willoughby. However, every wise woman's heart knows Colonel Brandon would take care of her when she was sick, love her when she was well and know her worth every day that she breathes.
Shannon L. Alder
#89. Marriage is a journey of disasters, only to fall in love all over again, with the person that rescues you each time.
Shannon L. Alder
#90. Marriage is the beginning of love for your spouse, not the result of it.
Shannon L. Alder
#92. 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
#93. For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, 'This is me. I'm not proud of it - in fact, I'm a little embarrassed by it - but this is who I am.
Bill Hybels
#94. It is not love to ignore your spouse's sin, or brokenness, or immaturity.
John Eldredge
#95. If you truly love someone, have the faith to 'let them go.' Encourage them to be the fullest measure of themselves, and you will be overwhelmed by the love that your spouse returns to you.
Seth Adam Smith
#96. There's nothing more devastating in a marriage than when a spouse puts their work, their desires above their partner's heart.
Solange Nicole
#97. Thoughtfulness is like a glue that hold a married couple together. Be creative and consistent in finding thoughtful ways to show your spouse that you love them and they are always on your mind.
Dave Willis
#99. Marriage can be tough. It really is. But God is calling you to do everything you can. It's just not you and your spouse. There's a third person in your marriage. And God would like to bless and protect that marriage, and give you many fruitful days ahead.
Tim Huelskamp
#100. In marriage, we're called to reflect God's love for us through our self-giving love for our spouse. God's love for us isn't dependent on our day-to-day feelings toward him, on how hard we work to please him, or even on how faithful we are to him. It's grounded in his nature and his covenant.
Matthew Vines
