Who doesn’t love a good marriage quote?  There is just something about being reminded by others of how wonderful marriage is that I find so beautiful. I may or may not also use them as Facebook statuses and post them to my husbands wall. I am an absolute SAP when it comes to love.  I love love.

So I’m going to list my top 30 favorite marriage quotes, and you leave your fav quotes in the comments.  Here we go….

Imagine a man so focused on God that the only reason he looked up to see you is because he heard God say “that’s her”. ~ author unknown

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that’s a real treat. ~ Joanne Woodward

A great marriage is not when the “perfect couple” comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. ~ Dave Meurer

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~ Mignon McLaughlin

Two souls but with a single thought two hearts that beat as one. ~ John Keats

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart. ~ Josiah Holland

Marriage: Love is the reason. Lifelong friendship is the gift. Kindness is the cause. Til’ death do us part is the length. ~ Fawn Weaver

It’s not compatibility that makes for a happy marriage…it’s grace. The point of marriage is not to make you happy by giving you a perfect soul mate. God’s point of marriage is to make you Holy by teaching you to love like Jesus. ~Author Unknown

Ladies, your husband doesn’t need you to love him as much as he needs you to respect him. To respect your husband is to hold him in high esteem and honor. – Tony Evans

I Found The One My Heart Loves ~ Song of Solomon 3:4

Our marriage is living proof that love and family can get you through everything. ~ Miss Kay

Ladies, a real man does more than pay for you, he prays for you. ~ Jarrid Wilson

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. ~Doug Larson

Marriage is getting to have a sleep over with your best friend, every single night of the week. ~ Christie Cook

Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. Its the way you love your partner every day. ~ Barbara De Angelis

God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God. ~ Max Lucado

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. ~ Simone Signoret

The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together. ~ Robert Dodds

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly. ~Peter De Vries

Marriage is a total commitment and a total sharing of the total person with another person until death. ~ Wayne Mack

Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work. ~Author Unknown

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. ~Barnett R. Brickner

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. ~ Simone Signoret

Love me when I least deserve it because that is when I really need it. ~ Swedish Proverb

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our heats and brings peace to our minds. ~ Noah Calhoun

Oh, body image…nothing can affect a wife’s confidence (or more often, lack thereof) quicker than a poor body image. 

So many of us women suffer from low self-esteem. Normally all our self-esteem issues revolve around our physical appearance. We are obsessed about our weight, hair, skin, facial features and so many other areas. You would be hard pressed to find a woman that would not change at least one thing about her appearance. Why do we find it so hard to love ourselves?  

Advertising, pornography, Hollywood, our own unrealistic expectations and possibly even hurtful comments from our husbands have merged into the perfect storm. Time and time again we are told that to be beautiful we need to look like a super model. The media tries to make you feel lower than low every single moment of your life. An unfathomable amount of damage has been left in that storm’s wake.

I can be confident. You can be confident. We can all be confident. We can walk through this world with heads and hearts held high as daughters of the King. Daughters who are messy and broken. With Him, we are transformed into beautiful simply because we are His. Understand your identity in Him and the beauty and freedom He bestows on us and the love He extends to us.

Dear amazing, loving man…

Little did I know that first night I met you that you were the one I had been praying for since I was a little girl. So many nights I spent on my knees, praying. Over the years the prayer changed from asking for prince charming to asking for a man that would simply treat me well. All those years God knew you were the man for me, my future husband, and was busy preparing your heart for mine.