Quotes About Union

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

I think just knowing you're married and having that in the back of your mind all the time - it sounds official, but it doesn't really feel any different. We don't do anything differently than we did before.

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

The separation of spirit from matter was a mystery and the union of spirit with matter was a mystery also.

to marry into a cloakroom, and form an alliance with a parcel

Was the soul a shadow seated in the house of sin? Or was the body really in the soul, as Giordano Bruno thought? The separation of spirit from matter was a mystery, and the union of spirit with matter was a mystery also.

Soul mates do always find each other, Artemis thought.

I love your feet because they have wandered over the earth and through the wind and water until they brought you to me.

ay,amar es un viaje con agua y con estrellas,con aire ahogado y bruscas tempestades de harina: amar es un combate de relámpagos y dos cuerpos por una sola miel derrotados -pablo neruda

De noche, amada, amarra tu corazón al mío y que ellos en el sueño derroten las tinieblas

Pero tú y yo, amor mío, estamos juntos, juntos desde la ropa a las raíces, juntos de otoño, de agua, de caderas, hasta ser sólo tú, sólo yo juntos.

Ma eccola qui, la tua forma familiare, quel che è mio, il tuo, quel che è mio, quel che è tuo e mi inonda, eccola qui, che mi riempie le membra di abbandono, eccola qui, la tua tenerezza, che si ormeggia alle stesse radici, matura nella stessa carovana di frutti, ed esce dalla tua anima rotta sotto le mie dita come il succo del vino dal centro dell'uva.

Offering inhaling breath into the outgoing breath, and offering the outgoing breath into the inhaling breath, the yogi neutralizes both these breaths; he thus releases the life force from the heart and brings it under his control.

in the progress of God's redemptive work, communication advances into communion, and communion into union. When the progression is complete we can truly say, "It is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me" (Gal 2:20) and "For to me, living is Christ" (Phil 1:21).

Union in action with the triune God is Christian spirituality. That is where the life is drawing its substance from God.

It can't be any other way. If salvation is to affect our lives, it can do so only by affecting our bodies. If we are to participate in the reign of God, it can only be by our actions. And our actions are physical—we live only in the processes of our bodies. To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives. Our life is a bodily life, even though that life is one that can be fulfilled solely in union with God.

We are meant to exercise our "rule" only in union with God, as he acts with us. He intended to be our constant companion or coworker in the creative enterprise of life on earth. That is what his love for us means in practical terms.

Reign is no doubt wording that is a little too grand for the contemporary mind, though what it refers to is what everyone actually pursues in life. We have been trained to think of "reigning" as exclusionary of others. But in the heart of the divine conspiracy, it just means to be free and powerful in the creation and governance of what is good. In the life of prayer we are training for, we reign in harmonious union with the infinite power of God.

Gentlemen, not only does the face of Mona Lisa look androgynous, but her name is an anagram of the divine union of male and female. And that, my friends, is Da Vinci's little secret, and the reason for Mona Lisa's knowing smile.

Una nueva compulsión ardía en su interior. Era sencilla. Básica. Primaria. Encontrar a Vittoria. Sentía un inesperado vacío en su interior. A menudo había oído que una situación intensa podía unir a dos personas más que una convivencia de décadas. Ahora lo creía. En ausencia de Vittoria, sentía algo que no había sentido en años. Soledad. El dolor le daba fuerzas.

I want to bless that young couple as they cross Union Square. I want to deliver some kind of benediction upon them as—drunk on love—they meander the narrow streets of Alphabet City. I want to suggest that there will come a time when they will need something more than love.

Even a (beautiful) figure brought into prominence by the meeting of two eyes affords delight only by the device of its union

Our dear Lord said we should pray always. Everything we are doing should be either a prayer in itself or can be made into a prayer. Any action that is not in itself wrong can be done in union with God and His divine will.

"I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance, a church filled with family and friends. I asked him what kind of wedding he wished for. He said one that would make me his wife."