Top 23 Mystical Union Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. When we hear any mention of our mystical union with Christ, we should remember that holiness is the channel to do it.
John Calvin
#4. 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
#5. The entire ordo salutis [order of salvation], beginning with regeneration as its first stage, is bound to the mystical union with Christ. There is no gift that has not been earned by him.
J.I. Packer
#6. The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.
Julia Cameron
#7. The would-be maturing believer is not challenged to any adult faith or service to the world, much less mystical union. Everyone ends up in a muddled middle, where "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity," as William Butler Yeats put it.
Richard Rohr
#8. I don't think I have a split personality. I believe the same person I am on the field is the same person I am at home - passionate about everything I do, whether it's reading a Bible or just hanging out with my wife.
Troy Polamalu
#9. Before you act, listen.
Before you react, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit, try.
William Arthur Ward
#10. I don't know if I'm supposed to say this, but probably not ... I was a really cynical child.
Nikki Reed
#11. I waited far too long, being optimistic rather than realistic. I also failed to do my homework
Gordon Clark
#13. Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat.
Mason Cooley
#14. But first my feet will freeze and then
my legs and then my insides, they will all turn to ice. And my blood, too, and
my heart, and I will forget.
Paullina Simons
#15. This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of love for this unseen person, who, in the very gift of love by which we surrender ourselves to his reality also makes his presence known to us.
Thomas Merton
#16. Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.
Haruki Murakami
#17. God didn't come to fix anybody. He came to kill them and resurrect them from the dead.
John Crowder
#19. Contemplation for an hour is better than formal worship for sixty years.
Muhammad
#20. There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#21. There's a little exhaust pipe leaking gasoline, and that gasoline is how good your music is, the gasoline is how you have relationships with people.
Gucci Mane
#22. However many and however great and burdensome your sins may be, with God there is greater mercy. Just as His majesty is, so likewise is His mercy.
Patriarch Tikhon Of Moscow
#23. The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with God regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices stand in the West.
Erwin Schrodinger
