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If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state? -- Tony Campolo
Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song. -- Luanne Rice
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
I was raised Catholic. Not just a little bit Catholic, like my wife, Catherine. When she was young, many Catholics in France already barely went to church, except for the big three: baptism, marriage, and funeral. And only the middle one was by choice. -- Frans de Waal
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife. -- Barbara de Angelis
The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered over the church in the early 1840s, after rumors spread that its founder, Joseph Smith, had taken up the practice of polygamy. While denying the charge in public, by 1843 Smith had shared a revelation with his closest disciples. -- Scott Anderson
Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church. -- Christopher West
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage. -- Charles Baudelaire
There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair. -- George Santayana
Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage. -- Charles Baudelaire
Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church. -- Martin Luther
Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically. It is mainly about displaying the covenant keeping love between Christ and his Church -- John Piper
When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on [gay] marriage, that's when it's time to resist. -- Rand Paul
Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
That question in marriage is mutual submission, really - the next verse goes on: "husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church." -- Francis George
Fighting the Traditional Marriage is provoking God;Beheading Jesus is to lead the church without His rulership or Counsel.Woe to theme who -- Dr Paul Gitwaza
There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage...In the movies. -- George Clooney
The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Marriage is a civil right. If you don't want gay people to marry in your church, good for you. But you can't say they can't marry in your city. -- Julian Bond
I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God. -- Rachel Held Evans

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