Life Quote by Charles Benedict

“Albeit with the best intentions in the world, the church has created a culture that simultaneously pressures singles to get married and makes it…

— Gina Dalfonzo

“Maybe I was a closet Catholic who, once taking the vows, can never lay them aside.”

— Mark Wildyr

The Church, in her wisdom, maintains the distinction between engaged and married couples -- they are not the same, today's culture and society have…

— Pope Francis

“Don’t let this choice [of a marriage partner] ever be made except with earnest, searching, prayerful consideration, confiding in parents, [and] in faithful, mature,…

— Richard L. Evans

“Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, nor without?”

— Jane Austen

“It is within the bonds of marriage that I, for one, found a greater freedom to be and to become and to share myself…

— Frederick Buechner

“Although we are all equally priests, we cannot all publicly minister and teach.”

— Martin Luther

“I believe in effort, I do not want to bind myself with vows' is the mentality of weakness, and betrays a subtle desire for…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“I harbor ill feelings toward a society, and a clergy, that allows marriage partners to split over the smallest incompatibility, where divorce comes in…

— Robert Dykstra

“Partnership, in whatever way, restricts and limits your independence.”

— Ehsan Sehgal

“Either marry or don't, there's no contract matrimony.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Marriage is one salvation pathway among many, although it contains different possibilities.”

— Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig