Sentences with phrase «better than the marriage»

The New Testament says celibacy is better than marriage.

What could be better than the marriage of the two prints!?

Please let me know if the shoes turn out better than the marriage Mx

Not exact matches

Eli Finkel: We have arrived at a moment in history where the best marriages are better than the best marriages of earlier eras, while at the same time, the average marriages are getting a little bit worse.

What matters for the well - being of children is family stability, rather than marriage per se.

Aug 22, 2017 Marriage comes with certain perks and having two heads is better than one when it comes to building wealth.

That's a good point, our government is racking up debt faster than locust on a wheat field, and we're arguing about gay - marriage, race and still abortion issues.

Matt Walsh is getting the pro-life and anti marriage redef message out there better than anyone in America!

To live celibacy well requires in some ways a deeper healing, and a more dramatic inner transformation than opposite sex marriage would require.

But in the very next chapter, he praises celibacy as a higher calling — a better way of serving Christ — than marriage.

Until recently, the Richland, Washington, shop was better known for its artistic arrangements than its stance on same - sex marriage.

Marriage also recognises that our relationships with each other are more than physical: they should involve knowledge and love - seeing and accepting the truth and good that each human being is.

a believing bondwoman is better than an idolatress though she please you; and give not your daughters in marriage to idolaters till they believe, for lo!

Strictly speaking, divorce is a right bestowed on the husband in view of his ability to shoulder the marriage obligations and because of his aptitude for better self - restraint than the wife can display.

The disciples interrupt the discussion by saying that if there is no way to dissolve an unhappy marriage other than by infidelity, it would seem best never to get married.

Obviously, I'm a big advocate for mutual submission in marriage, as that is what I believe those biblical passages ultimately teach and this is what works best in our marriage, but more important than adopting a single household model — either patriarchal or egalitarian — is adopting the posture of Jesus Christ, who emptied himself of power and took the role of servant.

A man in his middle years described his hopes for a weekend couples retreat: «I hope we can achieve that good, close feeling and learn to help others do better than we've done — we've wasted so much time in our marriage!»

To make the latter claim is to run counter to the approach of much popular and well - intentioned Catholic thought, thought that has tended to so exalt the goodness of sex that it has often seemed to imply that marriage is for sex rather than sex being for family.

If your marriage is like mine, this means that the complementary differences between you and your spouse often fall into gender stereotypes (I am more emotional; Dan is more even - keeled), but not always (Dan is better at nurturing relationships than I am; I am more competitive).

More than any show before or since, Friday Night Lights showed the power of a strong marriage in its ability to better and benefit society as a whole.

That's no better than someone saying, «It doesn't matter why one would vote for g a y marriage.»

You do not carry the responsibility for your wife, nor for other men, nor by any comparative standard with other men, but only as an individual, before God, where it is not asked whether your marriage was in accordance with others, with the common practice, or better than others, but where you as an individual will be asked only whether it was in accordance with your responsibility as an individual.

Yet Gregory does not deprecate marriage, he even echoes Paul's dictum: «Better be married than burn with vain desire» (1 Cor.

The father in the story may have really meant that it would be better if he himself was dead rather than to be subjected to daily reminders that his teen rejects his moral values and family rules — specifically the one pertaining to sex outside of marriage.

Just like heterosexual marriage is no better or worse than homosexual marriage, marriage between two consenting adults is not inherently more or less «correct» than marriage among three (or four, or six) consenting adults.

In many cases, mid-years couples discover that they are better off staying with their long - term marriage than dissolving the relationship in hopes of finding greener pastures elsewhere.

I hope Kohn can come to know better the millions of loving Christians who believe in the traditional definition of marriage and debate with them respectfully, rather than cast them out of civil discourse.

It would be hard to find more divisive, jabbing rhetoric on marriage than in these publications by self - described «marriage nut» David Blankenhorn, the founder and director of the Institute for American Values, and the late historian Elizabeth Fox - Genovese, well known for her testy rebuff of feminism.

Our point is that on the whole the nuclear mother - father team in intact first marriages does a better job of raising children than do single parents, stepparents or unmarried couples.

Man... healthcare reform, a black man in the Oval Office... twice, a trouncing in the last election that momentarily shattered their alternative reality bubble, the striking down of DOMA and more states legalizing gay marriage, whites soon to be less than 50 % of the US's population, and now even the Pope is calling bullsh!t on their philosophy... it's like every conservative nightmare is becoming reality, and we'll be better off because of it.

(2) St. Augustine flatly stated that marriage is a sin and St. Paul damned marriage with faint praise, remarking that to marry was only better than to burn (1 cor.

Sex without companionship in marriage is better than no sex at all; but its pleasure falls far short of sex within a relationship of loving and trusting.

With all the good will in the world, blended families often do not function smoothly — which is one of the main reasons why second marriages end in divorce more frequently than first marriages.

Augustine wrote: That the good purpose of marriage, however, is better promoted by one husband with one wife, than by a husband with several wives, is shown plainly enough by the very first union of a married pair, which was made by the Divine Being Himself.

On the cultural front, we are seeing what I call a «marriage mindset» — where people value childbearing within marriage as well as marital permanency — find a more secure purchase among highly educated Americans than among less - educated Americans.

When a marriage does not or can not serve that goal, it becomes less than ultimate and may well prove less than eternal.

Where, at the beginning of the novel, marriage has already occurred, love may well be sought outside marriage; the rendering of a love that both issues in marriage and develops and matures within it is much less usual... The more recent convention that «love» is the precondition not of marriage but of» sex» is a natural development of tradition rather than a reaction against it.»

I'm for g.ay marriage, because I don't see any harm coming from it, and I think some people are better off divorcing than living miserable lives together, but I'm not for anything else on your list (adultery, lying, cheating, stealing).

As far as attending the marriage ceremony of gay people i have two points of view the first is that that is there choice to live how they want to but to me that is clearly not Gods best and sin is sin and needs to be repented of but that is my standard not theres.As far as divorced people remarrying why shouldnt they if they have repented of there past God forgives them not condemns them.As he said to the women caught in adultery do they condemn you and she answers no and he says and neither do i.Go and sin no more.This was not just for the women causght in adultery this lesson was for every one of us he was addressing our sin publically for all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God that being his son Jesus Christ he is telling us that we must make the same decision to go and sin no more to repent in our hearts and the only way to do that is to give our hearts and lives totally to Jesus Christ other wise we are no better than the hypocrites in JESUS day.brentnz

Adultery does come with consequences you're right because it nearly destroyed my marriage my husband, me as a Christian and as a person who has suffered anxiety and panic disorder all my life, but even that is being dealt with now and both me and my husband believe this is the glory of God turning a bad situation round for his glory as our marriage is better than it ever was and my health has improved, Jesus forgives.

Cheerleaders do a good job of praising you for the win and encouraging you even when you lose, but marriage takes a little more than that.

My marriage survived — only just at some points - any my husband and I are better friends and lovers than we've ever been.

Why would calling it a same - s3x union be any better / different than calling it a marriage?

The debate, then, is a lot harder for my side to win; the arguments for sex ordered toward procreation within marriage are much stronger than «man - woman good, man - man / woman - woman bad.»

A better counselor than I probably could have given him a miracle cure and made their marriage all happy again.

I say a good marriage is more like an epic movie (with sequels) rather than a bumper sticker....

Ryan, a Catholic who chairs the House Budget Committee, is better known for his outspoken fiscal conservatism than for leading on conservative Catholic social causes like opposing abortion and gay marriage.

Stories of long - term spiritual growth and fulfillment in church are, in many ways, similar to stories of long - term growth and fulfillment in marriage: what matters more than initial compatibility is long - term commitment to growing together, working through conflict, and learning as broken people to love other broken people well.

Marriage itself is still good, and any deviation from it is less than good.

This latent marriage is a better marriage — more fulfilling, more intimate, more alive — than the here - and - now relationship.