Quotes About Marriage C S Lewis

#1. There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

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#2. I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.

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#3. On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, ... they were much more Chestertonian than their adversaries. The idea that a Puritan was a repressed and repressive person would have astonished Sir Thomas More and Luther about equally.

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#4. When observers look back 50 years from now, the arguments supporting Florida's ban on same-sex marriage, though just as sincerely held [as views of those who were opposed to interracial marriage], will again seem an obvious pretext for discrimination.

Robert Lewis Hinkle

#5. We have felt for some time that if political candidates or their staff are willing to make the pilgrimage to North Iowa, the least we can do is show hospitality. And it's also a wonderful way to get to know these people who make our political system work.

Kurt Meyer

#6. I am in love and out of it I will not go.

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#7. 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.

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#8. The best proof of the high quality of American beef is the continued negative BSE findings supported by the highest surveillance possible. The administration should be working to increase our surveillance of BSE, not scaling it back.

Rosa DeLauro

#9. Don't get mad about the infestation of fleas if you keep shopping at the dog pound.

Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

#10. Relationships are not additive, but multiplicative because you connect with his/her childhood experiences, past relationships, thoughts on money and more.

Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

#11. Oh, before I get carried away with my news - how are you? I hope you're doing all right and not second-guessing your decision to back away from your marriage plans. Honestly, though, I've been doing some of that here, but for different reasons, of course. Well,

Beverly Lewis

#12. I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married.

Lewis Grizzard

#13. We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction

Woodrow Wilson

#14. Stop looking for your better half! You need to be whole to attract your better whole, if you expect to have a flourishing relationship.

Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

#15. Bereavement is not the truncation of married love, but one of its regular phases---like the honeymoon. What we want is to live our marriage well and faithfully through that phase too.

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#16. Law is for the society; love is for the individual. Law is how you behave with others; love is how you behave with yourself. Love is an inner flowering; law is an outward performance. Because you live with people you have to be lawful, but that is not enough - good, but not enough.

Rajneesh

#17. Another superb movie about a mature marriage grounded in a fundamental lack of communication is Dodsworth, based on the Sinclair Lewis novel.

Jeanine Basinger

#18. Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.

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#19. An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or the cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning. One

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#20. You never know what will be expected of you, so you just go out and play.

Manu Ginobili

#21. Lewis created a new kind of marriage between theological reflection and poetic imagination.

Alister E. McGrath

#22. The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

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#23. The truth is that wherever a man lies with a woman, there, whether they like it or not, a transcendental relation is set up between them which must be eternally enjoyed or eternally endured.

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#24. The thing is, whenever I see Hillary Clinton, I feel like I have to vote for her. She makes me feel guilty because I feel like I should vote for her so that she'll feel better about herself because she'd been in such a bad marriage.

Lewis Black

#25. Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.

Walter Darby Bannard

#26. he almost never spoke about himself, in my hearing at least: though once, shortly after his marriage, when he brought his wife to lunch with me, he said...looking at her across the grassy quadrangle, 'I never expected to have, in my sixties, the happiness that passed me by in my twenties.

Jocelyn Gibb

#27. Thinking of only the worse of yourself will eventually destroy you

Sid Mittra

#28. You cannot win the future if you don't forgive your past

Ikechukwu Joseph

#29. When two people achieve lasting happiness, this is not solely because they are great lovers but because they are also - I must put it crudely - good people; controlled, loyal, fair-minded, mutually adaptable people.

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