The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.

With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught me patience. They've also taught me that I don't need to feel guilty about being happy. My emotional seasons are less extreme.

There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.

As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.

Deciding together to have a child and sharing in child-rearing do not immunize a marriage. Indeed, collaborative couples can face other problems. They often embark on such an intense style of parenting that they end up paying less attention to each other.

Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women.

If I meet a wise person, I think, 'Yes, tell me more about parenting, about marriage, about how to stay in love. Tell me more about how to be a decent person living in a world that's filled with chaos.'

I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage.

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

Marriage has just never interested me.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?

I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.

After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.