Gordon B. Hinckley Marriage Quotations

This will be the most important decision of your life, the individual whom you marry...

Mutual respect, the soft answer, financial honesty with the Lord, prayer. "I do not hesitate to promise that if you will go to your homes and cultivate and nurture it among these four cornerstones, your lives will be happy."

The most important step you have made or will make in your life is marriage. Its consequences are many, so important and so everlasting.. No other decision will have such tremendous consequences for the future.

Marriage in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.

There cannot be peace where there is not trust; there cannot be freedom where there is not loyalty

If you will make your first concern the comfort, the well-being, and the happiness of your companion, sublimating any personal concern to that loftier goal, you will be happy, and your marriage will go on through eternity

Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he will love you, that he will respect you, that he will honor you, that he will be absolutely true to you, that he will give you the freedom of expression and let you fly in the development of your own talents. He is not going to be perfect, but if he is kind and thoughtful, if he knows how to work and earn a living, if he is honest and full of faith, the chances are you will not go wrong, that you will be immensely happy.

True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.

Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.

Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work.

If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.

It is difficult for me to understand the tragic accounts of troubled marriages that come to me.

When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved.