We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.
The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.
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.
Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.
The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.
Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.
Marriage is the tomb of love.
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.