Steven Curtis Chapman Quotes

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord.

Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

I think I'm a really good girlfriend, and I think that I could be a really good wife. I know that I love being able to give my love out to someone. I know there is somebody great out there for me.

My husband and I witnessed firsthand how love truly heals.

If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.

I'm in my father's car at age 9 or 10 crying to Leonard Cohen's 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' thinking that you could write nearly a love letter to a man who betrayed you by having an affair with your wife. I was thinking how wonderful and pure music can be for explaining situations.

In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.

I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

The only thing I feel passionate about is my wife.

Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

I'm not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I'm not physically capable.

'Haywire' is full of different kinds of love songs. It's definitely country and a little something for everybody. I feel like the subject matter goes a little deeper about love and relationships.

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.

I sing to my wife; it helps me. She was my muse. I've written so many songs about her, to her, with references to her, and still do. She's a big part of my life. We were together for 33 years. It actually does me good - she's with me all that time in that way.

It took me six months to redeem myself at least to have another chance to at least have her get to know me and let her know I was at least a decent guy and to give me a shot. And here we are, we've been married seven years.

If a relationship is going wrong, if a marriage is going wrong, the answer cannot simply be to say, 'You can't afford to break up because you are going to lose the house.' The answer has to be only one thing, which is 'I love you.'

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.