David Jeremiah Quotes

Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us to truly learn how to love.

We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.

When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

One thing I didn't think upon getting married: that my style would - or could - change.

As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life.

I am not against marriage -- I am for love. If love becomes your marriage, good; but don't hope that marriage can bring love. That is not possible. Love can become a marriage. You have to work very consciously to transform your love into a marriage. Ordinarily, people destroy their love. They do EVERYTHING to destroy it and then they suffer. And they go on saying, 'What went wrong?' They destroy -- they do everything to destroy it.

I'm one of those people who tells my wife, "No coaching from the sidelines."

Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.

I loved everything about marriage. I loved having a companion to wake up with and have barbecues with. But things happen and people grow apart.

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms.

Some people get divorced, they leave the person for a couple of years, then they remarry. Relationships are very, very strange.

No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.

Rather than look at a marriage as two people morphing into one thing, you could see two individuals who are choosing to form a partnership.

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.

I thought it was interesting when [Bill Clinton] said, I married my best friend, because people are always asking, what is the nature of their marriage.

It's true/ I do imbue my blue unto myself/ I make it bitter.

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.

So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.

I never met a bitter person who was thankful. Or a thankful person who was bitter.

Marriage has been a very rich and beautiful development of my life. Month by month as we live together we seem to come nearer to each other; and to feel a more complete fellowship. I do not feel that it in any way fetters or narrows my world: - it seems rather to enlarge it.