Quotes about Union

The absence of a kingdom purpose for marriage makes it appear as if many couples have been married by the secretary of war rather than the justice of the peace. A passenger on a plane one day noticed that the man sitting next to him had his wedding ring on the wrong hand, so he asked him why. The husband replied, Because I married the wrong woman.

"So you want to become my son-in-law." "Not exactly. I just want to marry your daughter."

When death cuts all other links, there remains the name. Baptism: the union of a soul with a name, the name it will carry into eternity.

It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty.

Indeed, baptism is a vow, a sacred vow of the believer to follow Christ. Just as a wedding celebrates the fusion of two hearts, baptism celebrates the union of sinner with Savior.

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

We are united to Christ who is bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, and participate in the risen Humanity of Christ so that we are bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh.

When we speak of the Church as the Body of Christ we are saying that it is given such union with Christ that it becomes a communion filled and overflowing with the divine love.

As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.

Having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men.

God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.

Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.