Marriage Quote by Gary L. Thomas Download Open image ““What if God designed marriage to make us holy more than to make us happy?”” — Gary L. Thomas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Marriage
“Marriage is what you make of it, and God has many versions of what that looks like based on what different souls need, in… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Marriage isn't meant to make you happy. Marriage is meant to make you holy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What if marriage is really about making us more like Christ, not so much about making us happy? — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
“What can be more pleasing to God than to see those who enter into the marriage relation seek together to learn of Jesus and… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“Marriage is the preserver of the human race. Without it, the purposes of God would be frustrated; virtue would be destroyed to give place… — Joseph F. Smith Copy Share Image
“When God calls you to marry, He gives you a spouse who, by divine design, will complete you. Together you will be stronger and… — David Boehi Copy Share Image
“But some of us, a very few in the end, bet on marriage against the odds. And though I didn’t feel holy, exactly, I… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
“When both partners strive for a marriage that honours and pleases God, they can be assured of an everlasting joy and peace.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
“God lures us into marriage through love and sex and loneliness, or simply the fact that someone finally paid attention - all those reasons… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
“we can use marriage for the same purpose—to grow in our service, obedience, character, pursuit, and love of God.” — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
“The mark of a spiritual man or woman is a listening heart, not a lecturing tongue.” — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
“With Christ in us and the Holy Spirit transforming us, we really have no excuse for continuing immaturity.” — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
The older I get the more I realize that a significant portion of a parent's happiness or sadness in middle-age will be directly impacted… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
Done well, marital sexuality can be a supremely healing experience. — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
“Contempt is conceived with expectations. Respect is conceived with expressions of gratitude. We can choose which one we will obsess over-expectations, or thanksgivings. That… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
If you want to be free to serve Jesus, there’s no question—stay single. Marriage takes a lot of time. But if you want to… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
“One of these early thinkers, Augustine (A.D. 354–430), suggested that there are three benefits of marriage: offspring, faith (fidelity), and sacrament. Of the three… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
“Righteousness—true holiness—is seen over time in our persistence. It is relatively easy to “flirt” with righteousness—being occasionally courteous to other drivers (if you happen… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
“This is a book that looks at how we can use the challenges, joys, struggles, and celebrations of marriage to draw closer to God… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
“He planted marriage among humans as yet another signpost pointing to his own eternal, spiritual existence.” — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
It's astonishing how quickly cultural references change. Each new generation of parents grows up with a new slate of cultural understanding, television shows, and… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic. — John Whiting Copy Share Image
I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my… — Jane Powell Copy Share Image
Luckily, the bullet that hit my chest never got to me. It was stopped by a silver case I got for my brother's wedding. — James Doohan Copy Share Image
Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thing about hitting kids is, think about if you were doing the same thing to another adult. Hitting your kid is really the… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
“Take an interest in his appearance. Keeping his clothes in order is your job; encouraging him to look his best, and admiring him when… — Ellen Baker Copy Share Image
Females always say, you can't turn a hoe into a house wife, but steady be trying to turn a dog into a faithful man… — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
