Marriage Quotes

I've compiled a ginormous list of marriage quotes for you! What's awesome about this list is that they are all positive marriage quotes. No negativity here.

If you're anything like me, I get discouraged when I see so many quotes dissing marriage, and dissing husbands. Marriage is a wonderful union ordained by God. It's worth celebrating! 

So without further ado, here is a list of marriage quotes to encourage and inspire you. I know this is one page that I'll add to often. Enjoy the quotes! Enjoy your marriage!

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

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. - Barbara De Angelis

The ultimate purpose of marriage is not to make us happy but to glorify God. - Nancy Leigh DeMoss

God’s Word is the perfect guidebook for marriage, and those who live by His Word will reap the blessings that obedience brings. - Darlene Schacht

My husband is one of my greatest blessings from God. His love is a gift that I open every day. - Darlene Schacht

Somewhere between our laughs, deep talks and little fights... I fell in love with you. - Unknown

Life is better with your best friend, that’s why I married mine. - Unknown

Friendship is the jelly in the sandwich of marriage. It holds you together on the days when life pulls the plate out from under you. - Darlene Schacht

There is no such thing as a perfect man or a perfect marriage. But the one I have is absolutely perfect... for me. – Happy Wives Club

The wedding ring goes on the left ring finger because it is the only finger with a vein that connects with the heart. - Unknown

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. - Proverbs 5:18

There is no such thing as a perfect man or a perfect marriage. But the one I have is absolutely perfect... for me.- Happy Wives Club

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. - Ruth Graham Bell

Marriage is the garden gate. Along the path there will be flowers and weeds. Cherish the flowers and pull the weeds. - Unknown

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. - Audrey Hepburn

Every woman needs a man that will ruin her lipstick not her mascara. – Unknown

You may not be newlyweds, but you can still kiss like you are. – Darlene Schacht

Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite. – Unknown

Love is all of the moments--the good and the bad--and knowing that through them all, we’ll still be together. - Darlene Schacht

A marriage without friendship is like a bird without wings. – Darlene Schacht

Love is all of the moments--the good and the bad--and knowing that through them all, we’ll still be together. - Darlene Schacht

When I tell you I love you, I don’t say it out of habit, or to make conversation. I say it to remind you that you’re the best thing that ever happened to me. - Unknown

Marriage is getting to have a sleepover with your best friend every night of the week. - Christie Cook

When you hold my hand I’m reminded that I’m not alone in this world, that somebody loves me, and that I have a best friend. - Darlene Schacht

The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest. - Unknown

Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they are on the same side. - Zig Ziglar

My husband has made me laugh. Wiped my tears. Hugged me tight. Watched me succeed. Seen me fail. Kept me strong. My husband is a promise that I will have a friend forever. - Fawn Weaver

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend is his wife. - Frank Schubert

Husbands make the best kinds of heroes. - Lisa Jacobson

Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story. - Jennifer Smith

Being in a long marriage is a little bit like that nice cup of coffee every morning. I might have it every day, but I still enjoy it. - Stephen Gaines

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench, even if there is plenty of room at both ends. - Unknown

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it. - Swedish Proverb

No matter how old you both get, never stop holding hands, never stop dancing, and never stop saying, “I love you.” - Darlene Schacht

Love like there’s no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again. - Max Lucado

Love is not about how much you say, “I love you,” but about how much you can prove that it’s true. - Unknown

Success in marriage is much more than finding the right person. It’s a matter of being the right person. - Unknown

My husband, my treasure, I take thee to be my constant companion and friend. - Darlene Schacht

If I had my life to live over again... next time I would find you sooner so that I could love you longer. – Unknown

A successful marriage isn’t the union of two perfect people. It’s that of two imperfect people who have learned the value of forgiveness and grace. - Darlene Schacht

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

If he makes you laugh, kisses your forehead, says he’s sorry, makes an effort, holds your hand, works hard, attempts to understand you... then believe it or not, he’s quite perfect. - Unknown

I feel like I can conquer the world with one hand, when you are holding the other. - Unknown

One of the best feelings in the world is when you’re hugging a person you love really tight and they hug you back even tighter. - Unknown

A relationship is like a house. When a light bulb burns out you do not go and buy a new house, you fix the light bulb. - Unknown

A wise physician said, “The best medicine for humans is love.” Someone asked, “What if it doesn’t work?” He smiled and answered, “Increase the dose.” - Unknown

 Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. - Elizabeth Browning

True love is friendship set on fire. - Unknown

Let there be such oneness between you... that when one weeps, the other tastes salt. - M. Buxbaum

Happily married people complement each other regularly. - Alisa Bowman

Relationships blossom when sacrifice takes the place of selfishness. - Darlene Schacht

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When an old couple was asked, they said, How did we manage to stay together for 65 years? We were born in a time when if something was broken we’d fix it, not throw it away. - Unknown

 Don’t compare your beginning to someone else’s middle. - Jon Acuff

A couple that prays together stays together. – Unknown

When I think I can’t possibly love you more than I do, I fall in love with you all over again. - Darlene Schacht

When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. - C.S. Lewis

You’re still the one I run to, the one that I belong to, you’re still the one I want for life. - Shania Twain

Forget about what everyone else says--what everyone does. Glorify God in your marriage. Glorify Him with your life. - Darlene Schacht

Lord I pray that we will walk in a manner worthy of your calling to be man and wife, mom and dad, and children of the most-high God. - Darlene Schacht

 The family is one of God’s greatest masterpieces. - Unknown

I can’t promise you that marriage will be easy, but I can say that marriage, the way God intended it to be, is a treasure worth fighting for. - Darlene Schacht

Always say ,“I love you.” Even, and especially, if you’ve had a bad day. - Darlene Schacht

Intimacy starts in the heart, well before the bedroom. - The Soul Doctor

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. - George Eliot

The one question that every husband and wife should ask... Am I doing my part to glorify God? - Darlene Schacht

Marriage is a thousand little things that make up the sum of our vows. - Darlene Schacht

The most important thing that parents can do for their children is to have a Christ-centered marriage. - Darlene Schacht

At the beginning, your love supports your marriage. Later on, your marriage supports your love. - Larry Christiansen

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. - Pearl Buck

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. - Sydney Smith

Marriage is for life and the effect of it is for all eternity. - Unknown

Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy. - Ralph Connor

The first duty of love is to listen. - Paul Tillich

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

Marriage is not about two people looking into each other’s eyes. It’s about them standing side-by-side looking forward together. - Unknown

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. Genesis 2:24

Marriage wasn't designed to make you happy, it was designed to make you better."- Ken Ortize

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her. - Max Lucado

A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. - Proverbs 31:10

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate. - Matthew 19:6, NIV

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. - 1 Cor. 13:4-7, NIV

Have any to add to the list? Please leave them in the comments below. Thanks! 

You are loved by an almighty God,



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