Myles Munroe Quotes

Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

[Marriage is] something more than a mere contract. It is rather to be deemed an institution of society, founded upon consent and contract of the parties.

"It doesn't matter how long it takes." She thought of him, of them, the lifetime already shared. "It's how long it lasts."

The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.

Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.

When you take those vows and say, 'We'll be together as long as we both shall live,' I really don't think I would've married if I hadn't met Steve. And he's very special to me and continues to be.

Being engaged was the best feeling in the world - that someone wants to spend the rest of their life with you.

Marriage is not a magical potion that serves to amplify adoration, reduce deep-seated feelings of resentment, erase fears of commitment, or answer questions about whether or not this is the right move. Marriage is a ceremony that cements your current bond to another human being, and while that's a huge thing, that's all it does.

Everybody dates these days. Like you get to know someone before you end up getting married, committing for a lifetime relationship. So dating is cool, date as much as you want, get to know the person.

I never thought that I would get married, but it wound up happening. That was a really, really happy, exciting moment.

When you sign a contract you only think about staying for all of it, but that depends on many things.

I've been married a long time.

Marriage is absolutely something that's important to me. It's the ultimate symbolic step in love.

I've always wanted to get married.

If I have to leave, I don't want to leave without another ring.

When my wife and I promised the rest of our lives to each other, I doubt either of us suspected that life would involve quite so much TV.

how much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride.

A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon.

I think that it's a great idea to have honest conversations about children before getting married. I also think it's impossible to promise someone, "What I want right now will never change, and as long as I promise you I do - or don't - want a child - or a specific number of children - before we get married, we will never have to experience fear, anxiety, uncertainty, or the pain of not getting what we want, when we want it.

Vows begin when hope dies.

I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.

It's not so hard to be married, I've done it three or four times.

Man and wife were supposed to stay together because they'd made their vows in front of God and family.