Pastoral Resources

Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Marriage is... OK, it's rooted and grounded on love and attraction.

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.

Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.

I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.

Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.