Marriage / Divorce Quotes

Marriage is not a concession to our sinfulness; marriage is a provision for our holiness.

J. Alec Motyer

It is not marriage that fails, it is people that fail.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

There is no estate to which Satan is more opposed as to marriage.

Martin Luther (Founder of the German Reformation)

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Andre Maurois

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.

Anonymous

Marriage is more than finding the right person; it is being the right person.

Anonymous

7657 There is no perfect marriage for there are no perfect people.

Anonymous

(Also see Marriage)

A woman, married thirty years, was asked, “In your many years of marriage did you ever consider divorce?” She said, “No, I never considered divorce … murder, maybe.”

—Ray Stedman, sermon “How to Repent,” January 13, 1980

Ray Stedman

Marriage is a perpetual test of character.

Anonymous