Charles Eastman Quotes

Marriage is sanctified when it is cherished and honored in holiness. That union is not merely between husband and wife; it embraces a partnership with God.

To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.

Marriage was created by the hand of God. No man, not even a Supreme Court, can undo what a holy God has instituted.

Marriage is the union of man and woman, communion of life, participation together in the divine and human law.

Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to get married. I think because of the way I was brought up and seeing my parents in love.

Several millennia ago, the words were written that a man should leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. It was not our idea; it was God's idea.

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

I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.

To me marriage is for five or ten years.

Matrimony is not to be secret but open, in the face of the church.

God's word says for a man and a woman to be together, one man and one woman in the covenant of marriage to be together.

Marriage is a sacrament, and the decision of what is a sacrament lies with the Church, not with Parliament.

Jerry didn't know he wanted to get married until he was married.

Marriage is divine in its institution, sacred in its union, holy in the mystery, sacramental in its signification, honourable in its appellative, religious in its employments: it is advantage to the societies of men, and it is "holiness to the Lord.

Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder

Marriage is when two people are joined together to become one desperately boring person.

Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.

Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate; mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds.

God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.

Marriage is referred to in the bible as “mystical union,” and it really is in the sense that two people who don’t know each other get together. I’m always interested in how much you find out about the other person and how much you don’t find out.

I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word.

Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.