Married for God Quotes

“Marriage and family can easily become just a respectable form of selfishness. If we marry mainly to meet our own needs, then our marriages will be just that: good-looking masks for selfishness.”
― Christopher Ash, Married for God: Making Your Marriage the Best It Can Be

“We ought to want what God wants in marriage.”
― Christopher Ash, Married for God: Making Your Marriage the Best It Can Be

“Surprisingly, the key to a good marriage is not to pursue a good marriage, but to pursue the honor of God. We need to replace this selfish model of marriage with one in which we work side by side in God’s “garden” (that is, God’s world), rather than gaze forever into each other’s eyes.”
― Christopher Ash, Married for God: Making Your Marriage the Best It Can Be

“When we approach marriage expecting our needs to be met, we have not understood the real nature of love, and we are sowing the seeds of destruction in our marriages.”
― Christopher Ash, Married for God: Making Your Marriage the Best It Can Be