Top 100 Marriage Union Quotes
#1. She had not died there. A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which society would measure the quick motions of man.
E. M. Forster
#2. A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
E. M. Forster
#3. This marriage union with Christ is the most noble and excellent union:
Thomas Watson
#4. The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.
Mahatma Gandhi
#5. In all of Western civilization, there have been societies that celebrating the homosexuality, the ancient Greeks. But they, in fact, protected the institution of marriage as a union between one man and one woman. They got the joke. And the American people get the joke.
Ken Blackwell
#6. It is in the perfect union of two hearts that complete and total marriage consists.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#7. He [Pope Fransis] insists very clearly that only a union between man and woman, open to new life, by principle, can be called a marriage.
Christoph Schonborn
#8. Marriage under law is a union of equals," she
Sarina Bowen
#9. In the process of planning and having a wedding, I forgot there would actually be a marriage, a union of minds, bodies, souls, and issues that would come together as soon as the ceremony was over.
Iyanla Vanzant
#10. We are gathered here tonight to join these two lives, these two hearts, these two souls, in marriage. If there is anyone present here today who objects to this union, please take it up with the two armed federal agents who are getting hitched." Zane
Abigail Roux
#11. Limiting the designation of marriage to a union 'between a man and a woman' is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute
Ron George
#12. The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before.. The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage of ... previously unrelated forms of reference or universes of discourse, whose union will solve the previously insoluble problem.
Arthur Koestler
#13. Marriage ... is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other's sexual attributes for the duration of their lives.
Immanuel Kant
#14. Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.
Jim DeMint
#15. Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.
Vaughn Walker
#16. Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue
William Penn
#17. Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.
Randy Thornhorn
#18. No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.
Anthony Kennedy
#19. Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy of attraction, meanders through a rocky stretch of self-discovery, and culminates in the creation of an intimate, joyful, lifelong union.
Harville Hendrix
#20. It will come as no surprise to anybody to know that I support the traditional definition of marriage as a union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others, as expressed in our traditional common law.
Stephen Harper
#21. happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers." ~ Ruth Bell Graham.
Lisa Jacobson
#22. Marriage is an expression of love and respect and trust and faith in the future, but the union of husband and wife is also an alliance against the challenges and tragedies of life, a promise that with me in your corner, you will never stand alone.
Dean Koontz
#23. Arnold Schwarzenegger has come out against gay marriage. He said marriage is a sacred union between a groupie and any number of body builders.
Bill Maher
#24. So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.
Jack Kingston
#25. Many pray for the right partner but cease to pray for the right union--that they be one as Jesus and the Father are one and so experience the full measure of His joy in the relationship.
Ravi Zacharias
#26. My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.
Gary Bauer
#27. My parents' marriage, begun with a pregnancy that produced a stillborn child, was itself stillborn - a union formed with expectation and promise that never delivered.
Bridgett M. Davis
#28. If gay marriage was OK ... then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.
Boris Johnson
#29. Marriage, by its very nature, requires complementarity. The mystical union of Christ and the church - each "part" belonging to the other but neither interchangeable - cannot be pictured in marital union without the differentiation of male and female.
Kevin DeYoung
#30. Marriage is an exclusive union between one man and one woman, publicly acknowledged, permanently sealed, and physically consummated.
Selwyn Hughes
#31. I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend ... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.
Bill Frist
#32. I think that every state in the union should recognize same-sex marriage.
Cass Sunstein
#33. Being able to understand it was of no great importance. We see no visions because we live in an age in which they are not permitted; but if we accepted the idea of them, who's to say what we wouldn't see? Marriage is no longer a mystical union but a social contract.
Deirdre Madden
#35. Let me be clear. I support the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
Ben Nelson
#36. Ego, being love's kryptonite; two souls must be on the same page of humility.
T.F. Hodge
#37. Another reason it's wise for a man to view his marriage and not his job as foundational to his life is the biblical idea of union with his wife. We're called to work, but we're never called to be in union with our jobs. However, a man is most assuredly called to be in union with his wife.
Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
#38. I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
St. Jerome
#39. The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.
Salvatore J. Cordileone
#40. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
Marilyn Monroe
#41. If there is "better", then there is a "best". If there is "half", then there is a "complete". Far more than being a "better half", you can be a "best complete"; like a word/phrase that beautifies and gives meaning to a sentence when it is added.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#42. In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow.
Iyanla Vanzant
#43. Marriage is sanctified when it is cherished and honored in holiness. That union is not merely between husband and wife; it embraces a partnership with God.
Russell M. Nelson
#44. If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.
George Carey
#45. We only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union
a union of immortal affections, of undying faculties, of an imperishable destiny.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#46. Marriage is the union of two 'I's to form a 'V'. Both 'I's have to tilt equally to make a good 'V'. 'I's standing tall can never make a 'V'.
Ashok Kallarakkal
#47. Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.
James McGreevey
#48. Only the exclusive and indissoluble union between a man and a woman has a plenary role to play in society as a stable commitment that bears fruit in new life.
Pope Francis
#49. We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.
Ken Calvert
#50. The free exchange of consent properly witnessed by the Church establishes the marriage bond. Sexual union consummates it - seals it, completes it, perfects it. Sexual union, then, is where the words of the wedding vows become flesh.
Christopher West
#51. May your union be filled with love
Annealed by passion
Built on a strong foundation
And tempered by time
Richard L. Ratliff
#52. I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.
Charlie Sheen
#53. A healthy marriage is the union of two already complete people who choose to invest in each other. Two people who drain each other because they have nothing to invest - only withdrawals to take from each other - make for a very unhealthy, unfulfilling relationships.
Shannon Ethridge
#54. President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?
Tony Campolo
#55. Our Heavenly Father wants our hearts to be knit together. That union in love is not simply an ideal. It is a necessity
Henry B. Eyring
#56. Marriage or matrimony is the union of male and female, involving shared life together.
Justinian I
#57. It was God's brilliant idea to create man, to create woman, and join them in marriage - this unique union that begins with a look and quickly escalates into shouts of joy, nakedness, uninhibited freedom, and a closeness so magical it's described as becoming one flesh.
Justin Buzzard
#58. People will always want intimacy with one chosen person and you cannot have intimacy without privacy, which is why couples draw circles of privacy around themselves. They demand that family, neighbors and the law respect their union, and that is why we have marriage.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#59. Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a union.
Mark McKinnon
#60. The three ingredients of a successful union between two ... humor, commitment & undying love.
Bill Cosby
#61. No persons professing to be Christians should enter the marriage relation until the matter has been carefully and prayerfully considered from an elevated standpoint, to see if God can be glorified by the union.
Ellen G. White
#62. The union of a dedicated Dom and a confident submissive is a harmonious marriage of souls. There is no other experience like it.
Red Phoenix
#63. But God, most importantly, I pray that through our union, you will pour your love into someone that needs it. That you will shine your light through us so that our marriage will bring nothing but honor and glory to your name.
S.M. Smith
#64. May this colloquium be an inspiration to all who seek to support and strengthen the union of man and woman in marriage as a unique, natural, fundamental and beautiful good for persons, families, communities, and whole societies.
Pope Francis
#65. You are a sinner married to a sinner ... and the happiest marriage is the union of two forgivers.
Skip Heitzig
#66. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.
Olive Schreiner
#67. Marriage is supposed to be a union between two equals who love and support each other, not a master-slave relationship in which the man commands a docile woman.
Robert Thier
#68. The old ideals are dead as nails
nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman
sort of ultimate marriage
and there isn't anything else.
D.H. Lawrence
#69. It is in the very nature of conjugal love to be definitive. The lasting union expressed by the marriage vows is more than a formality or a traditional formula; it is rooted in the natural inclinations of the human person. For believers, it is also a covenant before God that calls for fidelity.
Pope Francis
#70. This is joy's bonfire, then, where love's strong arts
Make of so noble individual parts
One fire of four inflaming eyes, and of two loving hearts.
John Donne
#71. There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree
Vita Sackville-West
#72. Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.
Frederick William Robertson
#73. Marriage is referred to in the bible as "mystical union," and it really is in the sense that two people who don't know each other get together. I'm always interested in how much you find out about the other person and how much you don't find out.
Stephen King
#74. The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best that he possesses.
Georges Duhamel
#75. Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
Randy Neugebauer
#76. Marriage is the union of two people who arrive toting the luggage of life. And that luggage always contains sin.
Dave Harvey
#77. I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian - for me - for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God's in the mix.
Barack Obama
#78. Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#79. Effective metaphor does more than shed light on the two things being compared. It actually brings to the mind's eye something that has never before been seen. It's not just the marriage ceremony linking two things; it's the child born from the union.
Rebecca McClanahan
#80. In true marriage there must be a union of minds as well as of hearts. Emotions must not wholly determine decisions, but the mind and the heart, strengthened by fasting and prayer and serious consideration, will give one a maximum chance of marital happiness.
Spencer W. Kimball
#81. The church's teaching on marriage is unequivocal, it is uniquely, the union of a man and a woman and it is wrong that governments, politicians or parliaments should seek to alter or destroy that reality.
Keith O'Brien
#82. Marriage: This terrible insoluble problem of civilisation, which created all the evil. This unnatural state of union in disunion which exacted impossibilities and forced together elements absolutely and inherently antagonistic to each other!
Rosa Campbell Praed
#83. The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#84. Marriage is a contract between 2 people male and female;doing what it takes to make the union work until death due them apart
Martellis Thurmand
#85. Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Mark Twain
#86. [God in the Law given to Moses] having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men.
Eusebius
#87. It may well be that an analysis of figures would reveal a law - the duration of a marriage is inversely proportional to the cost of the wedding. Or, to put it another way, any union celebrated with personalized toasting flutes is doomed.
Michael Foley
#88. Because the union of a man and woman deserves an honored place in our society, I support the protection of marriage against activist judges. And I will continue to appoint federal judges who know the difference between personal opinion and the strict interpretation of the law.
George W. Bush
#89. Their respect for the mystery
the half-grasped but never spoken idea that maybe, when you got right down to the place where the cheese binds, there is no such thing as marriage, no such thing as union, that each soul stood alone and ultimately defied rationality. That was the mystery.
Stephen King
#90. Ah, marriage. The kind of union we have affects our children infinitely more than the schools we put them in, the activities we sign them up for, or the church we take them to. Our kids are learning relational habits by osmosis, and statistics say they'll likely imitate what they witness at home.
Jen Hatmaker
#91. The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.
C.S. Lewis
#92. Matrimony was probably the first union to defy management.
Red Ruffing
#93. It is not possible to redefine marriage. Marriage is the union between a man and a woman, has been historically, remains so. It is Alice in Wonderland territory, Orwellian almost, for any Government of any political persuasion to seek to come along and try to re-write the lexicon. It will not do.
Roger Gale
#94. We hope the day will soon come when every girl will be a member of a great Union of Unmarried Women, pledged to refuse an offer ofmarriage from any man who is not an advocate of their emancipation.
Tennessee Celeste Claflin
#95. There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
Henry James
#96. It was not a union which seemed likely to prosper, since its chief characteristics were imprudence, youth and extreme good looks.
Cecil Woodham-Smith
#97. A broken women has nothing to offer a whole man. A broken man has nothing to offer a whole women. Why? The successful relationship is predicated on each person coming to the union to give, give, give ... this is the perfect formula for success! Broken people are needy and selfish!!
Mz Liz
#98. In the Eucharist a communion takes place that corresponds to the union of man and woman in marriage. Just as they become "one flesh", so in Communion we all become "one spirit", one person, with Christ.
Pope Benedict XVI
#99. In marriage, the point is not to achieve a rapid union by tearing down and toppling all boundaries. Rather, in a good marriage, each person appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude and thus shows him the greatest faith he can bestow.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#100. I support and have always supported passage of a federal constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman. As President, I will fight for passage of this amendment. My personal belief is that marriage is between one man and one woman, for life.
Mike Huckabee
