Quotes About Union

He preserved the union and freed the slaves.

So, I got asked in January of 2014 to attend the State of the Union and sit as a guest in the first lady's viewing box.

Orthodox Islam, like orthodox interpretations of the other Abrahamic faiths, views homosexuality as sinful and usually defines marriage as only ever a heterosexual union. This isn't to say that there is no debate on the subject.

Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.

Most Republicans and the business community extol the virtues of trade, depicting it as an engine of economic progress, while most Democrats and unions attack the exportation of American jobs, claiming that trade agreements are destroying our economy.

Salvation is altogether a work of divine grace, a work of which we become partakers only in union with Jesus Christ, with whom we are united by the work of regeneration.

Subjectively, the union between Christ and believers is effected by the Holy Spirit in a mysterious and supernatural way, and for that reason is generally designated as the unio mystica or mystical union.

Souls and bodies should go on together.

It's a deal we all make, I remember thinking. What kind of life will I live with this person? All relationships are a balancing act, after all, each individual perched on either side of a seesaw. Your husband snores. Your wife leaves wet towels on the floor. But he brings you tea every morning. She's a terrific cook. All unions, all associations, every partnership- they all have their benefits and their drawbacks, their subscription fees.

So when the world's compounded union breaks, Time ends and to old Chaos all things turn;...Dissolve the engines of the broken world. All great things crush themselves, such end the gods...

Death breaks the union between the body and the soul but perfects the union between Christ and the soul.

I would have made her a part of me. If I could, I would have had a notch cut in my already aging side and a slip of her, my young rose, inserted there and lashed to me with twine.

have the impression, and I credit it, that in certain cases a union is no sooner forged than the seed of separation sprouts.

Like David uniting Judah and Israel, but to no avail, Bright's textbook facilitated an uneasy union between theology and history that has not held among most historians today. Two histories, one biblical (Geschichte) and the other the product of archaeology and sociological reconstruction (Historie), have for the time being seemingly gone their separate ways.40 For Bright, however, genuine history and genuine theology, as evidenced in Israel's faith, were one and the same.

If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

My first name and your last name would sound great together.

Real love is the union of two unconditional lovers who are committed to outdo each other in acts of sacrificial giving, selfless serving, undeserved forgiveness, unreserved admiration, heartfelt compassion and willful submission.

The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.

I desire only Him and to be wholly His.

The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point.