Quotes on Marriage And Divorce

For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a "solution" to stress, only as a way to end one form of pain and accept another.

The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is not in separation. It is in simple integrity that leads a man and a woman to square up their shoulders and meet their obligations. It is found in the Golden Rule, a time-honored principle that should first and foremost find expression in marriage.

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship.