Marriage
48 quotes: 39 by Keith Craft, 9 from other voices.
Keith Craft on Marriage
- A POWER-FULL marriage is two people becoming more powerful together than they could ever become apart.
- Extraordinary marriages are built on ordinary disciplines done extraordinarily well.
- Love is not proven by what you feel for your spouse… but by how you choose to show up for them.
- Marriage is a life decision to never quit on another person.
- Marriage is not a 50/50 proposition. It is a 100% commitment to WE and a willingness to die to ME.
- Romance is the antidote for mediocrity…it is a sense of wonder that is indestructible…it is the ability to BE in “awe” of the simple things so that the complex things do not “awfulize” our life.
- Somewhere between your ideal and your reality, all of your expectations are going to be set. Based on your expectations, whether they’re by default or by design, realistic or unrealistic, unmet or met, that’s the reality.
- The best marriages are built by two people who never stop choosing each other.
- The greater your philosophy of life, the more you need to plan, prioritize, and pray together in your marriage.
- The quality of your marriage will never exceed the quality of the person you choose to become.
- The strongest marriages are not built on obligation. They are built on intentional appreciation.
- True intimacy (IN-TO-ME-SEE) makes true love possible.
- What you consistently appreciate in your spouse will multiply in your marriage.
- When two people decide to be each other’s favorite person, marriage stops feeling like work and starts feeling like an INTO-ME-SEE partnership.
- You cannot create the marriage you want while refusing to become the spouse it requires.
- Your Marriage and your Family are the greatest predictors of how your Teams will be and whether or not your dreams c you are dreaming will ome true.
- If you do not lead yourself well, it doesn’t matter whether you are married to a good person or bad person, your marriage will fail.
- Marriage is the first template that God established for anything that you will ever build.
- God intended for marriage to be heaven on earth, and that is why if you don’t do marriage God’s way, it’s hell on earth.
- Don’t treat anybody better than your wife, because you are no better man than how you treat your wife.
- Decide to not just be a great man, but a great husband. Because truly, if you are not a great husband, you are not a great man!
- Honor is to marriage what oxygen is to the atmosphere.
- When marriage is healthy, it is heaven on earth. When marriage is unhealthy it is hell on earth. You can make heaven on earth by doing your part to be healthy.
- God intended for marriage to be the closest thing to heaven on earth. The devil intends for marriage to feel like hell on earth. WE decide which it will be.
- Marriage introduces you to your real self. Then, you get to decide to work on the being your best self so that your real self becomes the best version of you.
- Marriage is one of the most important anvils of life, that gives your normal a chance to become great.
- Your marriage is either by default or by design. When you intentionally focus on the best even when the worst has been displayed, you allow God to work all things together for your good.
- Intimacy is when the best version of you (your ability to be fruitful), connects with the best version of another (their ability to be fruitful). Only time can reveal whether the best of you (good fruit you bear) connects with a person, more than the worst of you (the bad fruit you bear or unfruitful parts of you).
- You have to make moments and turn those moments into momentum or it becomes mundane rather than magnificent.
- Marriage is two funerals and ONE resurrection.
- Marriage was meant to be the closest thing to heaven on this side of eternity.
- Being a better debater in your marriage does not create a winning team.
- Great lovers are people who love people the way they need to be loved more than just loving people the way they naturally love.
- When a man loves and honors a woman he is loving and honoring God.
- If there were Marriages that were made in heaven they must be worked out on earth.
- After creation, marriage was God's first priority.
- Romance is not sensualities of the heart. It is choosing to rise above mediocrity of mind in any and every area of your life.
- Playing head games in a marriage is a form of manipulation and control that ultimately blocks mutual heartfelt intimacy.
- Marriage is God's pattern for Procreation. In other words we learn to become 'pros' at what God is best at - creativity when marriage works the way God intended it.