Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far reaching effects.

What is marriage now, or what has it ever been? - just a painful suffering, a long suffering, with false smiling faces. It has simply proved to be a misery. At the most it can be just a convenience.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.

Marriage is the union of man and woman, communion of life, participation together in the divine and human law.

As difficult as it was to break off the wedding, we wanted to be in a better place together - especially when you go through a life-changing event like a wedding.

I'm married - I've caught my limit.

Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.

Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life.

Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.

Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.

Marriage is just a relationship to me. In my experience, when you've been in a relationship for as long as I've been in one, there's no real difference. It's just a piece of paper that validates what was already real.

It is very difficult to make really big, important, life-changing decisions because we are all susceptible to a formidable array of decision biases. There are more of them than we realize, and they come to visit us more often than we like to admit.

The best decision I ever made was to marry Dave.

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

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

[Matrimony] is the grave of love.

Getting married is an incredible act of hopefulness.

A wedding is and event, but marriage is a life.

If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to be really wrapped in marriage.

This will be the most important decision of your life, the individual whom you marry.

He that takes a wife, takes care

The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best that he possesses.

Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new identity (a new name). The boredom of spinsters and of women who can no longer find joy and fulfillment in marriage stems from an awareness of a barren, spoiled life. By embracing a holy cause and dedicating their energies and substance to its advancement, they find a new life full of purpose and meaning.