Spouse Quotes - Page 2

• The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse.

  Olivia Wilde

  Inspired, Partnership, Good Marriage

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Negative feelings are in you, not in reality. Stop trying to change reality. That's crazy! Stop trying to change the other person. We spend all our time and energy trying to change external circumstances, trying to change our spouses, our bosses, our friends, our enemies, and everybody else. We don't have to change anything. Negative feelings are in you.

  Anthony de Mello

  Crazy, Reality, Boss

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.79, Image

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• Surround your marriage with people who pull you toward your spouse.

  Ted Lowe

  People, Surround

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• It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. ... My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life today.' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now.

  Francis Chan

  Children, Heart, Decision

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• When a child shuts down his painful emotional side, he also loses the ability to express his joyous side. Emotions are a whole. With anger comes the ability to express delight; with sadness comes the ability to express lightheartedness. This is the breadth of emotion that allows an adult to experience intimacy with a spouse, with God, and with his children

  Henry Cloud

  Children, Sadness, Emotional

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• Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?

  Dennis Prager

  Kids, Careers, Soul

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• Marriage includes a spouse, and often children. But the goal, center, and purpose of marriage is not self, spouse, or children. The ultimate goal of marriage and family is the glory of God. Only when marriage and family exist for God's glory - and not to serve as replacement idols - are we able to truly love and be loved. Remember, neither your child nor your husband (or wife) should be who you worship, but instead who you worship with.

  Mark Driscoll

  Love, Children, Husband

  Mark Driscoll, Grace Driscoll (2013). “Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together”, p.28, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You may have no family, no food, no clothes, no future, no spouse, no health, or no children, yet be rich beyond your wildest dreams because you have the Holy Spirit in your life.

  Jill Briscoe

  Dream, Children, Clothes

  Jill Briscoe (2009). “A Little Pot of Oil: A Life Overflowing”, p.51, Multnomah

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• The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the 'love account.'

  Zig Ziglar

  Family, Friends, Children

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• You can only afford to be generous if you actually have some money in the bank to give. In the same way, if your only source of love and meaning is your spouse, then anytime he or she fails you, it will not just cause grief but a psychological cataclysm. If, however, you know something of the work of the Spirit in your life, you have enough love "in the bank" to be generous to your spouse even when you are not getting much affection or kindness at the moment.

  Timothy Keller

  Marriage, Kindness, Grief

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• Your pitching coach is almost like your spouse. He's someone to go to when you want to gripe and complain. The big thing for me with Mel (Stottlemyre) is that we've been through so much together. He's been through everything I've been through on the mound. He was a Yankee who won twenty games in New York and a Yankee who didn't win twenty games in New York. For me, he's been there and that's what makes a good pitching coach. He's a good man, too.

  Andy Pettitte

  New York, Men, Winning

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• Even with all that - excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment - I did not make my illness public until relatively late in life, and that's because the stigma against mental illness is so powerful that I didn't feel safe with people knowing. If you hear nothing else today, please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics'. There are people with schizophrenia, and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be your neighbor, they may be your friend, they may be your coworker.

  Elyn Saks

  Children, Powerful, Knowing

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• You have to make a switch. Decide today to start appreciating your spouse's strengths and learn to downplay their weaknesses. If you do, your marriage will be filled with more peace, unity and love, and you'll see God bless your marriage in greater ways.

  Joel Osteen

  Appreciate, Unity, Weakness

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• Express gratitude for what your spouse does for you. Express that love and gratitude often.

  Richard G. Scott

  Gratitude, Doe, Expressing Gratitude

  "To Have Peace and Happiness". Richard G. Scott's priesthood session address at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. September 12, 2010.

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• People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.

  Gary Chapman

  Emotional, Language Of Love, People

  Gary Chapman, Ross Campbell (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/The 5 Love Languages Men's Edition/The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers/The 5 Love Lan”, p.182, Moody Publishers

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• When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.

  Phil McGraw

  Loyalty, Together, Firsts

  "Dr. Phil & Robin's Do-It-Yourself Marriage Makeover". Interview with Robin McGraw, www.goodhousekeeping.com. December 20, 2007.

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• One of the most important thing in families, both for children and spouses, is never to close off possibilities - particularly never to make demands or threats.

  Hazel Hawke

  Children, Women, Important

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• Treat your date with the respect and purity you hope your future spouse will have. Keep in mind how you will expect a young man to treat your daughter one day. By listening to your conscience in this way, you'll have a good idea of where to draw the line.

  Jason Evert

  Daughter, Men, Ideas

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• For the spouse of someone in the service, you are your own provider, your own lover, you own best friend while that person's gone - the mother and father if you have kids.

  Jessy Schram

  Friendship, Mother, Father

  "Jessy Schram Talks Falling Skies, Last Resort and Once Upon a Time". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Having a really good partner, whether it's a good friend, someone in your family or a spouse, is always the greatest thing to have when you have a new challenge that you're facing.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Good Friend, Challenges, Partners

  Source: www.ncwit.org

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• Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.

  Michele Weiner-Davis

  Relationship, Marriage, Real

  Michele Weiner Davis (2002). “The Divorce Remedy: The Proven 7-Step Program for Saving Your Marriage”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• The unwillingness to be accountable to a spouse makes most men, and now women, vulnerable to sin in their lives.

  Larry Burkett

  Men, Sin, Vulnerable

  Larry Burkett (1990). “Business by the Book: The Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for Business Men and Women”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Family, Marriage, Couple

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• Don't expect your spouse to be perfect. He/she is only the dunya version of themselves. Their 'perfect' version is saved for jennah.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Islamic, Perfect, Dunya

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• Courage has become Raiders of the Lost Ark, or riding in spaceships, killing people, taking enormous physical risks. To me, the kind of courage that's really interesting is someone whose spouse has Alzheimer's and yet manages to wake up every morning and be cheerful with that person and respectful of that person and find things to enjoy even though their day is very, very difficult. That kind of courage is really undervalued in our culture.

  Mary Pipher

  Courage, Morning, Alzheimer's

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