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Marriage Quotes by Timothy Keller
- Marriage is two broken people having little broken people.
- In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any 'broader good' such…
- Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can’t understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.
- While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is…
- Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.
- It seems almost oxymoronic to believe that this new idealism has led to a new pessimism about marriage, but that is exactly what has happened.…
- In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring us…
- You can only afford to be generous if you actually have some money in the bank to give. In the same way, if your only…
- To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known…
- Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just…
- ...Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too…
- Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer…
- Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in…
- [Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.
- Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives…
- Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.
- Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.
- While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.
- Both men and women today see marriage not as a way of creating character and community but as a way to reach personal life goals.…
- Within this Christian vision of marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at another person and get a glimpse…
More Marriage Quotes
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk… — Marcel Achard
- Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a… — Jane Austen
- Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. — Jane Austen
- It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. — Jane Austen
- Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the… — Sai Baba
- I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If… — Lauren Bacall
- If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were. — Richard Bach
- I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the… — Michele Bachmann
- I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this… — Michele Bachmann
- I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional… — Michele Bachmann