Marriage - Branham Quotes
Here's a woman standing here. I'm a young man , waiting to get married. She meets my specifications in every way. She's a lovely Christian: she looks like one, she acts like one, she lives like one. I'll admit she'd make me a good wife. But she isn't mine till I take her for mine"
64-1227 Who Do You Say This Is
Everything is a responsibility. And so easy when responsibilities face us to shirk from them. And we find out that marriage is a responsibility in all manners"
65-0217 A Man Running From The Presence Of The Lord
Marriage is honorable, but it should be entered prayerfully and reverently. And genuine love for that woman will bind you together forever"
57-0922 Hebrews Chapter Seven Part 2
Marriage is the oldest institution in the world. Marriage was performed first, and instituted in the garden of Eden"
65-1125 The Invisible Union Of The Bride Of Christ
God gave us a remedy and a way to marry our wives and live with them, but men won't accept God's remedy, won't accept His Word on it"
65-0221(M) Marriage and Divorce
The reason you have so many scruples in the marriage, is because you go out and see some girl with pretty brown eyes, or blue eyes, or something like that, some pretty figure, and you fall for her. First time she has her first baby them teeth comes out, and she gets wrinkled and old, and then you want to kick her out"
58-0928E The Serpent's Seed
You'd better pray hard before you marry that girl. I don't care how pretty she is: same thing to a man"
65-0429E The Choosing Of A Bride
There's another choice that we have in life. That's a life's companion. A young man or a young woman, stepping out on life has a--has been given a right to make a choice. The young man chooses, the young woman has a right to accept or reject it, but it's still a choice on both sides; both man and woman, they have a right to choice"
65-0429E The Choosing Of A Bride
How would we know how to enjoy the dry weather if there wasn't rain? How would we know to enjoy and respect a real woman if there wasn't a dirty one?"
65-0221(M) Marriage and Divorce
Right and wrong is a choice. Every man, every woman, boy, and girl has to choose whether they are going to try to live right or not live right. It's a choice. Choice is a great thing"
65-0429E The Choosing Of A Bride
Now, it's a serious thing when we go to choose a wife. A man... For the vows here is until death do we part. That's how we should keep it. And you take that vow before God that only death will separate you"
65-0429E The Choosing Of A Bride
A man in his right mind that's planning a future, that he should choose that wife very careful; be careful what you're doing"
65-0429E The Choosing Of A Bride
And a woman choosing a husband, or accepting the choice of a husband, should be real careful what she's doing and especially in these days. A man should think and pray before he chooses a wife"
65-0429E The Choosing Of A Bride
And we find that if a man prayed and a woman prayed over the matter, not just look at a pretty set of eyes, or big strong shoulders, or such as that, or some other worldly affection, but would look first to God and say, "God, is this Your plan?"
65-0429E The Choosing Of A Bride
And if we would study what we were doing when we were going to get married, when we choose our wife or husband, if we'd study it over... A man should pray earnestly, for he could ruin his entire life. Remember the vow is "Until death do we part." And he could ruin his life by making the wrong choice"
65-0429E The Choosing Of A Bride
But if he knows what he's making the wrong choice and is marrying a woman that isn't fit to be his wife, and he does it anyhow, then it's his fault. If the woman takes a husband and knows that he's not fit to be a husband to you, then that's your own fault after you know what's right and wrong. So you shouldn't do it until you thoroughly pray through"
65-0429E The Choosing Of A Bride
The kind of a woman that a man would choose will reflect his ambition and his character. If a man chooses the wrong woman, it reflects his character. And what he ties himself to shows truly what's in him. A woman reflects what's in the man when he chooses her for wife. It shows what's down in him. No matter what he says outside, watch what he marries"
65-0429E The Choosing Of A Bride
A true Christian will not look for such beauty queens, and chorus girls, and sex queens. He'll look for Christian character"
65-0429E The Choosing Of A Bride
What say if he would marry a chorus girl, or what if he'd marry a sex queen, or just a pretty modern Ricketta? It reflects; it shows what he has in his mind of what his future home's going to be, because he took her to raise his children by, and whatever she is, that's the way she'll raise those children. So it reflects what's in the man. A man that takes a woman like that shows just what he is thinking of the future"
65-0429E The Choosing Of A Bride
Now, you can't have all things. There might be one girl that's real pretty, and the other girl maybe she's a--her statue looks better than this one. And you might have to sacrifice one for the other. But if she's not the statue of a lady, of a woman, and she's... I don't care whether she's pretty or not, you'd better look at her character, whether she's pretty or not pretty"
65-0429E The Choosing Of A Bride
Right and wrong is a choice. Every man, every woman, boy, and girl has to choose whether they are going to try to live right or not live right. It's a choice. Choice is a great thing."
65-0429E The Choosing Of A Bride
If a Christian would choose a wife, he ought to choose a genuine borned again woman. Regardless of what she looks like, it's what she is what makes her. And then again, that reflects his own godly character and reflects what's in his mind and what's going to be in the future, for his family will be raised by such a woman, for the future plans for his home"
65-0429E The Choosing Of A Bride
If he marries a girl that ain't got enough moral about her to stay home and take care of a house and wants to work out in somebody's office, what kind of a housekeeper will she be? You'll have baby-setters and everything else. It's true"
65-0429E The Choosing Of A Bride
When God gave a man a wife, He gave him the best thing He could give him outside of salvation; but when one goes to trying to take a man's place, then she's about the worse thing that he could get ahold of"
65-0429E The Choosing Of A Bride
If a man marries a woman that won't stay home, you see what he's looking for in the future"
65-0429E The Choosing Of A Bride
But you know, you have to plan, and look, and pray when you're choosing. For we see by this, the Word of promise, she, the bride that a man would choose is going to reflect his character. It reflects what's in him"
65-0429E The Choosing Of A Bride
Remember now, a man and his wife are one"
65-0429E The Choosing Of A Bride
One chose a beautiful girl; the other one chose character. Now, that's the only way you can choose. First look for character, and then if you love her, fine"
65-0429E The Choosing Of A Bride
When a man chooses a certain girl out of a family, he must not rely upon beauty, for beauty is deceiving, and beauty, modern worldly beauty is of the devil"
65-0429E The Choosing Of A Bride
You are a jewel if you want to be a jewel, but the desire has to be by you"