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When you initiate romance in your marriage relationship, you communicate to your spouse that he or she is desirable to you. -- Jimmy Evans
There are many types of marriage relationships and all of them can work, but none is sadder than the one that doesn't represent peace in your heart. -- Shannon L. Alder
Just as the unique characteristics of both males and females contribute to the completeness of a marriage relationship, so those same characteristics are vital to the rearing, nurturing, and teaching of children. -- David A. Bednar
I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship. -- Patricia Arquette
Get yourself healthy before you get yourself married. Too often we bring our unexamined selves into our marriage relationship. Also, have a cultivating commitment to have a quality relationship with each other in your marriage. -- Neil Clark Warren
By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fulness of glory. Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities, males and females each bring to a marriage relationship unique perspectives and experiences. -- David A. Bednar
God has brought us together as families to bring to pass His eternal purposes. We are part of this plan in this marriage relationship. let us love and respect and honor one another. We can do it, and we will be the better for it. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, 'This is me. I'm not proud of it - in fact, I'm a little embarrassed by it - but this is who I am. -- Bill Hybels
Everything that occurs in the temple is uplifting and ennobling. It speaks of life here and life beyond the grave. It speaks of the importance of the individual as a child of God. It speaks of the importance of the family and the eternity of the marriage relationship. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any negative character trait will be intensified in a marriage relationship, because you will feel free to let your guard down -- that person has committed himself to you and you no longer have to worry about scaring him off. -- Josh McDowell
The marriage relationship is one of God's creations for building up people. It gives husbands and wives the chance to minister to an immortal human being in a uniquely intimate fashion. To enjoy the meaningfulness of marriage, then, requires a once-made but ongoing commitment of mutual ministry to our mates and the more we seize them, the more meaning our marriage will have. -- Larry Crabb
Marriage is an extremely difficult relationship. -- Lee Radziwill
In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship. -- Tim Allen
Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men. -- Marilyn Monroe
I've had two terrific relationships, but both ended in marriage. -- Jane Seymour
We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship. -- Daniel Drew
I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren. -- Daryl Hall
I love being in a relationship, but marriage isn't for me. -- Arsenio Hall
Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship. -- Dada Vaswani
I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me. -- Charlize Theron
I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships. -- Hillary Clinton
Cofounders will endure so much together that their relationship is often compared to a marriage. -- Jessica Livingston
Whatever's missing in your relationship, including a marriage, is what you're not bringing to it. -- Nadine Velazquez
Y'know, every relationship is different. There are good marriages, bad marriages, connected partners, unconnected partners. -- Sandra Bullock
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. -- Martin Luther
My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage - everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ. -- Lee Strobel
I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley. -- Anne Heche
I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership. -- Carson Daly
Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is. -- John Sentamu
A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really. -- Richie Sambora
I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship. -- Helen Reddy
Marriage wrecks any decent relationship. -- Susan Straight
I believe marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. -- Mitt Romney
The relationship, the marriage, the commitment, the partnership... This is the holy ground. -- James Taylor
Married people should be best friends; no relationship on earth needs friendship as much as marriage -- Marion D. Hanks
Every kind of relationship needs encouragement from both parties. Be it marriage, dating, friendship, enmity etc. -- Nike Thaddeus
Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship. -- Gloria Allred
Lovers forget that after marriage and kids, it's no longer a 'relationship' - It's a family. -- Siddharth Katragadda
My relationship with Dean was great, but ultimately it wasn't a fulfilling marriage for either of us. -- LeAnn Rimes
In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship. -- Joseph Campbell
Marriage is an intimate relationship between two people. It is a bad idea to involve a third party. -- Amy Dickinson
True charity ought to begin in marriage, for it is a relationship that must be rebuilt every day. -- James E. Faust
A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship. -- Susan Faludi
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. -- Joseph Campbell
Singles have a purpose that is higher than any earthly relationship. Marriage is honorable, but so is being single. -- Monica Johnson
I did commit adultery, if adultery is having a relationship in a marriage with another woman. I learned from that. -- Steve Garvey
He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang. -- T.C. Boyle
A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables." -- James Dobson
My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage - everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ." -- Lee Strobel
My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage -- everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ. -- Lee Strobel
Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can't understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel. -- Timothy Keller
I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public. -- Kareena Kapoor Khan
I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public. -- Kareena Kapoor Khan
When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship. -- Lady Gaga
To give ourselves totally to another person, as we do in marriage, is the most trusting step we take in any human relationship. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me. -- Michelle Williams
My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. -- Kyle Chandler
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten. -- Dick Gregory
My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like. -- Candace Bushnell
Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain. -- Carl Jung
I was trying to point out I'm not opposed to gays having their partnership. I'm opposed to gays using theterm marriage for their relationship. -- Rick Warren
Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life. -- Fay Weldon
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it. -- Benjamin Carson
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it. -- Benjamin Carson
Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It's harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next. -- Pink
The ezer is a warrior, and this has far-reaching implications for women, not only in marriage, but in every relationship, season, and walk of life. -- Carolyn Custis James
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long. -- Amy Grant
You can love a song, but you can form a bond with an album, a relationship that evolves as organically and beautifully as a marriage. -- Jacob Hoye
Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know. -- Nancy Mitford
I want you to know that marriage isn't for you. No true relationship of love is for you. Love is about the person you love. -- Seth Adam Smith
Righteous marriage is a commandment and an essential step in the process of creating a loving family relationship that can be perpetuated beyond the grave. -- David A. Bednar
It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain. -- Meg Ryan
One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case. -- Alana Stewart
Romantic love has its place but to define relationship solely in romantic terms is like describing marriage only by what a couple does on their honeymoon. -- Dermot Davis
Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one. -- Joseph Campbell
We are trained to analyze problems and create solutions. We forget that marriage is a relationship, not a project to be completed or a problem to solve. -- Gary Chapman
When a marriage fails, the story of the relationship changes. The best parts, the parts that made you think getting married was a good idea, fade from memory. -- Tori Spelling
Marriage is supposed to be a union between two equals who love and support each other, not a master-slave relationship in which the man commands a docile woman. -- Robert Thier
The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage. -- Will Self
They say that when a woman wants to end a relationship, she cuts off all of her hair. I've done that twice in my marriage but am still married. -- Leslie Mann
There is usually less romance in marriage than in any other relationship of life. But the general idea concerning marriage is that it is all or nearly all romance. -- Alice Moore Hubbard
My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days. -- Erika Slezak
Being 'one flesh' in marriage means that the relationship is not the source of security, affirmation, control, or value. Those issues of identity need to be rooted in Christ. -- Scott Perkins
When you form a band, you form a real relationship that's like a marriage. It's an emotional connection, especially when you're young... because you don't know what's out there. -- Robert Coppola Schwartzman
Yes, gay marriage is about symbolically blessing a relationship, but the larger issue is about transmitting a fundamental message about equality. Gay people should have equality in law everywhere. -- Daniel Radcliffe

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