Many people believe marriage is just about love. They think that as long as you’ve got sparkling eyes, an adrenaline rush, the “butterfly feelings”, and the constant desire for intimacy, you’re in love. The unfortunate thing about this misconception is as soon as obstacles arise and your infatuation is placed behind a practical circumstance, they’ve “fallen out of love”. Marriage is more than an emotional love or infatuation–it’s also a commitment. There’s times where situations may not be as exciting as others, and maybe the attraction is not at its peak, but you still have to be intentionally loving.
A Scenario to Think on…
Take for example….The Agape couple. Mr. and Mrs. Agape were a “love at first sight” story. When Mr. Agape saw his wife for the first time, he knew she was the one. Both were devout Christians, so they started their relationship with a courtship where they studied the Bible together regularly. As they grew to know one another better, they had an increased desire to be close, to communicate, and to be affectionate. They married after one year of courtship. Shortly after their honeymoon, Mr. Agape had to travel for work, and Mrs. Agape found she was pregnant while he was gone. As the hormones surged, she wanted the companionship of her husband more than ever, but he was so consumed by his work, he didn’t have the time. When they finally had the chance to talk, he was tired or seemingly insensitive, and a wedge was growing between them.
Can it Always be Peaches and Cream?
In reality, issues like what Mr. and Mrs. Agape experienced are absolutely normal. They may each have different love languages and other factors can play into this, but overall, two well intentioned people can have trying times. Romans 12:2 says, “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is–his good, pleasing and perfect will.” In these trying times, there needs to be an outlet, a way to renew your mind and motivate yourself to maintain the love in your relationship, which is why we, at The Color of Marriage have compiled this list of 50 best marriage quotes to motivate yourself to make your marriage work…
Best Marriage Quotes for Wives
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. Ephesians 5:22
Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Ephesians 5:24
But reject profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise yourself toward godliness. 1 Timothy 4:7
“A woman’s place is in God” – Dr. Myles Munroe, The Purpose and Power of Woman
“The woman has physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual “wombs”. – Dr. Myles Munroe
“The woman is an incubator by nature”. – Dr. Myles Munroe
“A woman incubates in these main ways:
She sees possibilities and potential
She ponders words, actions, and relationships between things
She processes words, ideas, needs, and problems
She conceives and invents
She develops ideas, plans, and programs
She protects what she has received while it develops
She produces something new from what she receives.
She multiplies what she is given.” – Dr, Myles Munroe
Best Marriage Quotes for Husbands
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, Ephesians 5:25
So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. Ephesians 5:28
“Cherishing your wife is more than just speaking a few kind words every now and then or completing a task that you probably should have already done anyway.” – Joe Robinson, Founder, The Color of Marriage
“You should begin to think of doing things that you know will express to your wife how much you value, appreciate and care for her.” – Joe Robinson, Founder, The Color of Marriage
“No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God!”
― T.D. Jakes
“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 near his heart.” ― Myles Munroe, The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. —Franz Schubert
He who finds a wife finds a good thing,
And obtains favor from the Lord. – Proverbs 18:24
Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. – Ephesians 5:33
Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them. – Colossians 3:19
“The male was created to be the cultivator of the spiritual and personal lives of his family members. To cultivate means to multiply, make fruitful, make better. The male is the cultivator of his work, talents, and skills, his children, and his wife.” – Dr. Myles Munroe
“God has given men the ability to provide for and protect everything he has entrusted to their care.” – Dr. Myles Munroe
“Men are meant to fight against sin and Satan, not flesh and blood”. – Dr. Myles Munroe
