18 Great Christian Quotes about Marriage

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

There is no more lovely, friendly or charming relationship, communion or company, than a good marriage.

God has set the type of marriage everywhere throughout the creation. Every creature seeks its perfection in another. The very heavens and earth picture it to us.

In sharp contrast with our culture, the Bible teaches that the essence of marriage is a sacrificial commitment to the good of the other. That means that love is more fundamentally action than emotion. But in talking this way, there is a danger of falling into the opposite error that characterized many ancient and traditional societies. It is possible to see marriage as merely a social transaction, a way of doing your duty to family, tribe and society. Traditional societies made the family the ultimate value in life, and so marriage was a mere transaction that helped your family's interest. By contrast, contemporary Western societies make the individual's happiness the ultimate value, and so marriage becomes primarily an experience of romantic fulfillment. But the Bible sees GOD as the supreme good - not the individual or the family - and that gives us a view of marriage that intimately unites feelings AND duty, passion AND promise. That is because at the heart of the Biblical idea of marriage is the covenant.

Marriage was ordained for a remedy and to increase the world and for the man to help the woman and the woman the man, with all love and kindness.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser, loves.

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word.

As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.

An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

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

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.

We are here to love. Not much else matters.

The ones who disappoint you need you the most.

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.