While researching for my current sermon series entitled “Unbelievable Love,” I came across a website named “The 25 Best Marriage Quotes.” Some of the favorite quotes were:
“I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
“The Best marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
“There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.”
“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. My husband and I have never considered divorce… murder sometimes, but never divorce. -Joyce Brothers”
While I am not sure those quotes are very helpful, here is one from the website that might actually benefit us in our individual relationships:
“To keep your marriage brimming with love in the loving cup, whenever you are wrong admit it; whenever you are right, shut up.”
True love knows when to be silent and when to speak up, when to lift up and when to push forward, when to draw near and when to give space. True love is not annoying, blind, or secretive; it does not give up or put down. True love forgives and asks forgiveness. True love endures the tests of time.
Have a blessed day,
John Mark Caton, Ph.D
One of the best teaching cd’s on marriage I have listened to was about how marriage was meant to make you holy …not happy. In the process of becoming more Christ like you would become happy. Talked about the things in your mate that were likes barbs to you could be the grinding stone that grinds down the barbs in you that are keeping you from becoming more Christ like…and vise versa. Made you stop and take things in the bigger picture then being so quick to jump on the mate…made you pause and think…is Christ trying to show me something here…something in me that needs to be changed….will diffuse you…just thought I would share.
Very true! Thanks for sharing.