Quotes on Marriage

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

Come out of the circle of time_x000D_ _x000D_ And into the circle of love.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making life’s journey.

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.