Spouse Quotes - Page 3

• You've got to be willing to stay committed to someone over the long run, and sometimes it doesn't work out. But often if you become real honest with yourself and honest with each other, and put aside whatever personal hurt and disappointment you have to really understand yourself and your spouse, it can be the most wonderful experience you've ever had.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Hurt, Disappointment

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• Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?

  Joan Kirner

  Men, Done, Should

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• How you think about your spouse greatly impacts how you treat your spouse.

  Ted Lowe

  Thinking, Impact, Treats

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• Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your private pleasure at the expense of your spouse, you are living against yourself and destroying your joy. But if you devote yourself with all your heart to the holy joy of your spouse, you will also be living for your joy and making a marriage after the image of Christ and His church.

  John Piper

  Marriage, Husband, Heart

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.210, Multnomah

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• All in all it's a pretty great day for major league sports. At long last they've decided that gay people are fit to be included in their elite club-one that's already allowed in adulterers, wife-swappers, gamblers, cheaters, rapists, racists and slaughterers of man. Those who've abused spouses, drugs, alcohol, family members and animals. Congratulations, gay athletes. Are you sure you want to hang out with these people?

  Jon Stewart

  Change, Sports, Congratulations

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• What is the biggest obstacle facing the family right now? It is over-commitment; time pressure. There is nothing that will destroy family life more insidiously than hectic schedules and busy lives, where spouses are too exhausted to communicate, too worn out to have sex, too fatigued to talk to the kids. That frantic lifestyle is just as destructive as one involving outbroken sin. If Satan can't make you sin, he'll make you busy, and that's just about the same thing.

  James Dobson

  Sex, Stress, Kids

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• A lot of times your spouse sees things about you that you don't necessarily see.

  Ted Cruz

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• Dally not with other folk's spouses or money.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honesty, Folks

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• Nobody knows you as well as our spouse. And that means no one will be quicker to recognize a change when you deliberately start sacrificing your wants and wishes to make sure his or her needs are met.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Mean, Sacrifice, Wish

  Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick (2013). “The Love Dare”, p.13, B&H Publishing Group

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• What you don't catch a glimpse of on your wedding day- because how could you?- is that some days you will hate your spouse, that you will look at him and regret ever exhchanging a word with him, let alone a ring and bodily fluids.

  Nick Hornby

  Regret, Hate, Glimpse

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• It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Loyalty, Two, People

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• Patience gives your spouse permission to be human. It understands that everyone fails. When a mistake is made, it chooses to give them more time that they deserve to correct it. It gives you the ability to hold on during the rough times in your relationship rather than bailing out under the pressure.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Patience, Mistake, Giving

  Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick (2013). “The Love Dare Day by Day, Gift Edition: A Year of Devotions for Couples”, p.25, B&H Publishing Group

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• I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.

  Donald Miller

  Giving Up, Moving, Kids

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• Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouse's positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the lists and reread them frequently.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Marriage, Writing, Quality

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• • People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child, abusive spouse, fading parents, or cancer. Don’t judge people until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Give them a break instead.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Sympathy, Children, Cancer

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from Oct 30, 2015

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• Ыex is so huge and so amorphous. It's everything. It's not just pornography. It's not just cheating on a spouse. It can take so many forms.

  Stuart Blumberg

  Cheating, Form, Pornography

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• Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Friends, Mistake, Errors

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• There are not schizophrenics. There are people with schizophrenia and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be your neighbor, they may be your friend, they may be your coworker.

  Elyn Saks

  Children, People, May

  "What's It Like To Have A Psychotic Episode?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 6, 2013.

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• ..we are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In all this getting we get something else: anxiety and depression.

  Peter McWilliams

  Depression, Jobs, Children

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• It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Easy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If we be married to Christ, and He be jealous of us, depend upon it this jealous husband will let none touch His spouse.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Husband, Jealous, Married

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• It takes a lot of courage to be happy (after the death of a spouse), but I've got courage, so I think I will be happy again.

  Florence Henderson

  Happiness, Thinking, Happy Again

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• I'm a middle-bracket person with a middle-bracket spouse / And we live together gaily in a middle-bracket house. / We've a fair-to-middlin' family; we take the middle view; / So we're manna sent from heaven to internal revenue.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Views, Heaven, House

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• Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.

  Steven Levitt

  Mother, Home, Mean

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• While it only takes one spouse to be friendly, it takes both spouses to be friends. When both spouses are unfriendly, the marriage is marked by conflict and coldness. When one spouse is friendly and the other is unfriendly, the marriage is marked by selfishness and sadness. But when both spouses each make a deep, heartfelt covenant with God to continually seek to become a better friend, increasing love and laughter mark the marriage.

  Mark Driscoll

  Love, Laughter, Sadness

  Mark Driscoll, Grace Driscoll (2013). “Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together”, p.29, Thomas Nelson Inc

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