Francis Chan Quotes

The institution of marriage works better when there's a spiritual connection. If you're marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective.

Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.

God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.

In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.

The Bible stresses that a marriage ideally should be a picture or a reflection of Christ's love for His people.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.

Divorce Myths: 1. When love has gone out of a marriage, it is better to get divorced. 2. It is better for the children for the unhappy couple to divorce than to raise their children in the atmosphere of an unhappy marriage. 3. Divorce is the lesser of two evils. 4. You owe it to yourself. 5. Everyone's entitled to one mistake. 6. God led me to this divorce.

Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically. It is mainly about displaying the covenant keeping love between Christ and his Church

It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

Love's secret is always to be doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.

We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the whole sloppy mess of love and intimacy and aversion and euphoria and failure. But most importantly of all, most subversively of all, most stubbornly of all, we invented privacy.

Some couples divorce because of a misunderstandin g; others, because they understand each other too well.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus.

I have the best husband one could dream of; I could never have imagined finding one like him. He is a true gift of heaven, and the more we live together the more we love each other.

Opening her eyes again, and seeing her husband's face across the table, she leaned forward to give it a pat on the cheek, and sat down to supper, declaring it to be the best face in the world.

My baby love and I are ENGAGED!!!

Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.

What you are doing I cannot do, what I'm doing you cannot do, but together we are doing something beautiful for God, and this is the greatness of God's love for us-To give us the opportunity to become holy through the works of love that we do because holiness is not the luxury of the few.

Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

Let's all get married. There is nothing more beautiful than two people who love each other and commit to marriage

Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.

If we would truly seek to be more like our Savior and Master, learning to love as He loves should be our highest goal

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