Many people today have discarded the Bible’s clear teaching on sexual relations outside of marriage, simply because they are absorbed only in their own pleasures and desires.
~ Billy Graham
A good marriage is not “made in heaven,” but on earth. Love is a fragile commodity which needs to be cultivated and nourished constantly.
Marriage is God’s invention, not ours! Society didn’t establish it; God did.
Satan’s first appearance in the Bible included an attack on a marriage—trying to divide Adam and Eve. His tactics have not changed. He wants our marriages to flounder and fail, because he knows that few things will discourage us more.
I know of few families today that aren’t touched to some extent by the heartache of divorce, including our own.
A marriage based only on physical attraction or romantic emotions is almost certainly doomed to failure right from the start.
[My wife] is a great student of the Bible. Her life is ruled by the Bible more than any person I’ve ever known. That’s her rule book, her compass.
Young people, look to your Bible when thinking about any matter, including getting married.
I have been asked the question, “Who do you go to for counsel, for spiritual guidance?’ My answer: My wife, Ruth. She is the only one I completely confide in.
When a husband and wife are concerned only about their own individual desires, the stage is set for conflict.
My wife often said that “a good marriage consists of two good forgivers.
Marriage is a holy bond because it permits two people to help each other work out their spiritual destinies. God declared marriage to be good.
Marriage is the most serious long-term contract a couple will make in their lifetime, but many enter into it with a lack of maturity and knowledge. The growing number of divorces shows how imperative it is that young people be adequately prepared for marriage.
Nothing brings more joy than a good marriage, and nothing brings more misery than a bad marriage.
Thousands of young couples go through with a loveless marriage because no one ever told them what genuine love is. If people today knew that kind of love, the divorce rate would be sharply reduced.
The perfect marriage is a uniting of three persons—a man and a woman and God. That is what makes marriage holy.
Gardens don’t grow by themselves, they need to be tended and cultivated and weeded. The same is true of a marriage.
The secret of domestic happiness is to let God, the party of the third part in the marriage contract, have His rightful place in the home. Make peace with Him and then you can be a real peacemaker in the home.
If young people could only realize that a happy marriage depends not only on the present, but upon the past, they would be more reluctant to enter into loose, intimate relations with anyone and everyone.
Pleasure depends on circumstances, but Christian joy is completely independent of health, money, or surroundings.
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
God does not need our money. He owns everything, including “our” money. What He wants [us] to discover is where our central focus of worship lies. Is that focus on God or our money?
Materialism and self-centeredness are the great vices of our age.
We are only stewards of the world’s resources. They are not ours; they are God’s. When we find our security in Him, we can then give generously from what He has entrusted to us. This is our Christian duty.
We can possess nothing—no property and no person . . . It is God who owns everything, and we are but stewards of His property during the brief time we are on earth.
There are things which money cannot buy, which no music can bring, which no social position can claim, which no personal influence can assure, and which no eloquence can command.
Can people tell from the emphasis we attach to material things whether we have set our affection on things above, or whether we are primarily attached to this world?
Many young people are building their lives on the rock of materialism. I find across the country a deep economic discontent among people in every walk of life.
Tell me what you think about money, and I will tell you what you think about God, for these two are closely related. A man’s heart is closer to his wallet than anything else.
Money represents your time, your energy, your talents, your total personality converted into currency. We usually hold on to it tenaciously, yet it is uncertain in value and we cannot take it into the next world.
The Bible warns that money cannot buy happiness! Money cannot buy true pleasure. Money cannot buy peace of heart. And money certainly cannot buy entrance into the kingdom of God.
We have tried to enthrone the false gods of money, fame, and human intelligence; but however we try, the end is always the same: “It is appointed unto men once to die” [Hebrews 9:27 KJV].
The Internal Revenue Service wants a record of how you spend your money, but that is nothing compared to the books God is keeping.
Money takes our minds off God.
Covetousness puts money above manhood. It shackles its devotee and makes him its victim. It hardens the heart and deadens the noble impulses and destroys the vital qualities of life.
Today we are putting our hopes in materialism, in technological progress, and in freedom from moral absolutes. They have all failed. They’ve failed because they’ve been powerless to change the human heart. What is the answer? There is hope, if we will turn to God.
If we allow our Christian faith to be adulterated with materialism, watered down by secularism, and intermingled with a bland humanism, we cannot stand up to a system that has vowed to bury us.
Part of our problem with debt is that we have confused needs with wants. Yesterday’s luxuries are today’s necessities.
There are two ways of being rich—have a lot, or want very little. The latter way is the easier for most.
There are those who have made their fortunes on other people’s misfortune. The Bible never promised that life would be fair.
