Marriage Insights - Quotes on “Preparing for Marriage”

Quotes on “Preparing for Marriage”

The following are quotes from various resources to help those who are preparing for marriage. We pray they will be helpful.

• If all you’ve thought about is the wedding and not the marriage, then you might need to think again. (Renae Willis)

• Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do. (Maggie Gallagher, The Case for Marriage)

• Too many couples fall in love, but they don’t realize that falling in love and getting married are two different steps. It’s not too difficult to fall in love with someone. But that doesn’t mean that you should spend the rest of your lives married to each other. You may have “loved” each other through a certain season of your lives, but this relationship may not be one that would last through the rest of the seasons of your lives. Marriage is something you commit to because you’re both equally committed to each other and to the Lord who wants to bless your union, helping it to be one that reflects God’s agape (unconditional) love.

If either of you don’t feel like you can commit to living together for the rest of your lives in unconditional commitment to your marital union, doing things God’s way —then it would be best to either put the wedding on hold until you’re both committed to do so or let the relationship go and move on with your lives apart from each other. The time to do this is BEFORE the wedding —NOT afterward. (Cindy Wright)

• If you’re single, and you want to know who to marry, run as hard and as fast toward Jesus as you can and if, out of the corner of your eye, you see somebody running in the same direction, take a second look. (Pastor Tommy Nelson)

• In taking marriage vows, we are doing what the Lord Himself did with Abraham: making a promise of love to one individual.In keeping this promise, we are actually mirroring the Lord’s own faithfulness to all His people, a faithfulness designed from the beginning to spill over to the whole of mankind. (Mike Mason, The Mystery of Marriage)