Spouse Quotes - Page 9

• We all desperately need love. If a spouse in a difficult marriage will learn the love language of that spouse, and they will, with the help of God, consistently speak their love language no matter how they are treated.

  Gary Chapman

  Needs, Matter, Helping

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• Anger management (which is a part of both public displays of rage and spouse abuse) is about changing a person's internal reactions to events (how they see their behavior) by changing the support environment for the behavior (making them see the behavior is wrong).

  Stanton Peele

  Support, Abuse, Events

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain befor you can say "Liquid-Plumr"; that it is not advisable to clip something out of the newspaper before your wife has read it, even if the newspaper in question is a week old; that I am the only person in our two-person household who can eat the same thing for dinner three nights in a row without pouting; and that headphones were invented to preserve spouses from each other's musical excesses.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Night, Hair, Two

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.

  Clay Shirky

  Cities, Dating, Mets

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• If Jesus Christ were to sit down with us and ask for an accounting of our stewardship, I am not sure He would focus much on programs and statistics. What the Savior would want to know is the condition of our heart. He would want to know how we love and minister to those in our care, how we show our love to our spouse and family, and how we lighten their daily load. And the Savior would want to know how you and I grow closer to Him and to our Heavenly Father.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Father, Heart

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• Your objective of being in love with each other will require both you and your spouse to focus your attention on the other's most important needs.

  Willard F. Harley

  Being In Love, Focus, Important

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• It was the same with friendship. Disagreement between friends and spouses, too had to be carefully handled. If the time you spent with friends was consumed by disagreement, then there was no room for the essence of friendship, which was a sharing of the world. And that sharing involved seeing things the same way, or at least seeing things through the eyes of the friend.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Eye, Essence, World

  Alexander McCall Smith (2011). “The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• A pregnant woman and her spouse dream of three babies--the perfect four-month-old who rewards them with smiles and musical cooing,the impaired baby, who changes each day, and the mysterious real baby whose presence is beginning to be evident in the motions of the fetus.

  T. Berry Brazelton

  Dream, Baby, Real

  T. BERRY BRAZELTON, M.D. (1992). “TOUCHPOINTS THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE”

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• We all have a private world in which we live; that's the place where nobody comes; alone with our secret thoughts. Our own spouses oftentimes don't know what we're thinking. In our private worlds, it's only you and the Lord, who searches our hearts and knows our anxious thoughts.

  O. S. Hawkins

  Heart, Thinking, Secret

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I can think of numberless males, from Bonnard to Callahan, who have photographed their lovers and spouses, but I am having trouble finding parallel examples among my sister photographers. The act of looking appraisingly at a man, making eye contact on the street, asking to photograph him, studying his body, has always been a brazen venture for a woman, though, for a man, these acts are commonplace, even expected.

  Sally Mann

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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• Perhaps sometimes we have self-serving sense that we often experience when we believe we know better than our boss, our teacher, our spouse or partner, our friends, our political leaders - if only they would listen to us!

  Mary C. Gentile

  Teacher, Believe, Leader

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• In today’s world, however, the number of children in a family is a matter of profound public concern. The law regulates other highly personal matters. For example, no one may lawfully have more than one spouse at a time. Why should the law not be able to prevent a person from having more than two children?

  John Holdren

  Children, Law, Two

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• Things don't change in a marriage until the spouse who is taking responsibility for a problem that is not hers decides to say or do something about it.

  Henry Cloud

  Love, Marriage, Responsibility

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2002). “Boundaries in Marriage”, p.41, Zondervan

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• Married life can seem as if it's only five days long. The first day you meet, the second day you marry, the third day your raise your children, the fourth day you meet your grandchildren, and the fifth day you die first or bury your spouse to go home alone for the first time in many years.

  Mark Driscoll

  Children, Home, Years

  Mark Driscoll, Grace Driscoll (2013). “Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together”, p.36, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• These most crafty enemies [the devils] have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, and have laid impious hands on Her most sacred possessions. In the Holy Place itself, where has been set up the See of the most holy Peter and the Chair of Truth for the light of the world, they have raised the throne of their abominable impiety, with the iniquitous design that when the Pastor has been struck, the sheep may be scattered.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Past, Sheep, Light

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• Learning to enjoy being single involves the ability to experience everything through your own essence, instead of living vicariously through a spouse or partner.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Single, Essence, Partners

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• I hang out with people who are amazing parents and really value a rich living. I'm not talking about monetarily. I'm talking spiritually and mentally, and we help make sure that each one is on their game for their spouses.

  Tisha Campbell-Martin

  Talking, Games, People

  "Tisha Campbell & Duane Martin: Through the Fire". Essence.com Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

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• You can change your spouse, your friends but never your club.

  Adam Richman

  Clubs

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• I want a return to the divorce system based on the fault of one spouse.

  George Pell

  Divorce, Want, Return

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• There's fantasies about what heaven is like and who Satan is and why you shouldn't masturbate or why you should vote Republican. It's funny because it's an election year and their news broadcasts are constantly talking about "Vote Republican". I think that they think they're being subtle about it, but that's definitely not the case. So I'm like, "What does this have anything to do with the nice advice you were giving about how to live your life, how to get along with your spouse etc?"

  Brad Warner

  Nice, Thinking, Talking

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction.

  Virginia Postrel

  Coffee, Mean, Cutting

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• Too many people - some of them judges - seem to think that freedom of speech means freedom from consequences for what you have said. If you believe that, try insulting your boss when you go to work tomorrow. Better yet, try insulting your spouse before going to bed tonight.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "'Academic freedom'?" by Thomas Sowell, townhall.com. February 15, 2005.

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• I don't like those men who claim that their wife is their best friend. . . . I think spouses should tolerate each other and occasionally have sex.

  Adam Carolla

  Sex, Men, Thinking

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• You really don't have to worry about your spouse, as long as you trust him or her. If you trust your spouse or whoever you're in a relationship with, everybody else doesn't matter.

  Morris Chestnut

  Long, Worry, Matter

  "The Best Man Holiday" Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• Post-Christian man is not the same as Pre-Christian man. He is as far removed as virgin is from widow: there is nothing in common except want of a spouse: but there is a great difference between a spouse-to-be and a spouse lost.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Men, Differences

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