Quotes About Holy Matrimony

#1. I am the woman who,when the priest asks,"Is there any reason why this man and woman cannot be joined in holy matrimony?", would clear her throat or stand up to supposedly straighten her dress, thus making the groom and bride nervous for a minute.

Zukiswa Wanner

#2. Love is dirty-sloppy-stupid. The problem has always been: How do we contain such a dangerous substance (love) in the confines of holy matrimony without hurting or killing someone?
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Michael Ben Zehabe

#3. If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.

Charles Caleb Colton

#4. The question is not ... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?

Kathleen Battle

#5. We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'

Nancy Pearcey

#6. I consider how you don't get to choose whom you're attracted to, you only get to wonder about it retrospectively.

David Mitchell

#7. [Marriage] promote[s] the moral order of the world - Edith Wharton "The Eyes

S.T. Joshi

#8. I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.

George Carey

#9. Surveillance of power is one of the most important ways to ensure that power does not abuse its status. But, of course, power does not like to be watched.

Bruce Schneier

#10. Perhaps love doesn't divert sound judgment.

J.D. Tew