Quotes about Union

It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Sexual ecstasy is like death. It is one of the secrets of nature's wisdom.

Prayer is talking to something or anything with which we seek union, even if we are bitter or insane or broken. (In fact, these are probably the best possible conditions under which to pray.) Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up. The opposite may be true: We may not be able to get it together until after we show up in such miserable shape.

Speculative truth begins to appear but a shadow of individual minds, agreement between intellects seems unattainable, and we turn to the truth of feeling as the only universal bond of union.

But if she can marry blood, beauty, and bravery—the sooner the better.

Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.

O night that joinedBeloved and loverLover into beloved transformed

spiritual marriage is like rain falling from heaven into a river

People can live in other spheres (cf. 2:1-3), but Christians live in Christ.

Christ hath come, and run away to heaven with my heart and my love, so that neither heart nor love is mine.

A forced marriage is no marriage.