Quotes for Wedding & Marriage

Christian quotes for Wedding & Marriage — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on the marriage that sustains your love.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

To love is to be vulnerable.

C.S. Lewis

Tugas pertama mencintai adalah mendengar.

Paul Tillich

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.

Thomas Merton

The most important thing in preparing for marriage is not finding the right partner, but becoming the right partner.

Robertson McQuilkin

My wife has lived with at least five different men since we were wed—and each of the five has been me.

Tim Keller

Over the years you will go through seasons in which you have to learn to love a person who you didn’t marry, who is something of a stranger.

Tim Keller

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 to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.

Tim Keller

The best way to be a good father to your children is to be a good husband to their mother.

Jay Adams

To have peace and love in a marriage is a gift that is next to the knowledge of the gospel.

Martin Luther

The measure of love is to love without measure.

Augustine of Hippo

The best gift a man can give to his children is to love their mother.

Paul Washer

Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Martin Luther

Where two people know everything about each other, the mystery of their love becomes infinitely great. Knowledge does not abolish the mystery; it deepens it. That the other is so close to me is the greatest mystery.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Love edifies by presupposing and calling forth the lovable in the other.

Søren Kierkegaard

The more love grows in you, the more beauty grows; for love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine of Hippo

Every creature has a primal urge for a loving embrace.

Hildegard of Bingen

To love is to will the good of another.

Thomas Aquinas

Love does not destroy, it perfects all things.

Francis de Sales

Our perfection consists for the most part in bearing with one another in our imperfections.

Francis de Sales

Love is holy because it is like grace—the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Marilynne Robinson

But there is only one thing that has power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

Alan Paton

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

Tim Keller

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Charles Dickens

You are in every line I have ever read.

Charles Dickens

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

What marriage is for: It is a way for two spiritual friends to help each other on their journey to become the persons God designed them to be.

Tim Keller

Love proves itself in faithfulness, but it is only perfected in forgiveness.

Werner Bergengruen

God did not create woman from man's head, that he should command her, nor from his feet, that she should be his slave, but rather from his side, that she should be close to his heart.

Talmud

The first marital love, of course, fades with time, but then another love comes, just as beautiful. Then souls draw closer.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Those who love are free and bound at the same time. They can leave, but they want to stay. They can protect themselves, but they want to open up. They belong to themselves, but they give themselves away.

Hans-Joachim Eckstein

Love is not everything - but without love, everything is nothing.

Hans-Joachim Eckstein

The miracle of marital encounter is that it makes something out of two people that neither could ever become alone.

Manfred Hausmann

The biblical mandate for spouses is to seek their own joy in the joy of the partner.

John Piper

How can we live marriage well? In unity with the Lord, who constantly renews our love and makes it stronger than any difficulty.

Pope Francis

All marriages go through difficult moments. But these experiences of the cross can make the path of love even stronger.

Pope Francis

Feelings are a poor foundation for marriage, but they can be a wonderful, glorious by-product.

John MacArthur

Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving.

Paul David Tripp

People quoted here

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, C.S. Lewis, Paul Tillich, Thomas Merton, Robertson McQuilkin, Tim Keller, Jay Adams, Martin Luther, Augustine of Hippo, Paul Washer, Søren Kierkegaard, Hildegard of Bingen

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