"To be Frank, I'd have to change my name!" Craig
This is a page where I collect a whole lot of quotes from other people which are thankfully, to be frank, much better than mine above! We live in an age where contrary thought is being cancelled with alarming speed and ferocity. Yet, there is much wisdom and guidance for the future from the past. So, at the risk of being cancelled...
A collection of some favourite quotes:
"For me, the life of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, whose birth we celebrate today, is an inspiration and an anchor in my life. A role‐model of reconciliation and forgiveness, He stretched out His hands in love, acceptance and healing. Christ’s example has taught me to seek to respect and value all people of whatever faith or none." Queen Elizabeth 2014.
‘God sent His only Son “to serve, not to be served.” He restored love and service to the centre of our lives in the person of Jesus Christ’. Queen Elizabeth 2012.
‘God sent into the world a unique person – neither a philosopher nor a general (important though they are) – but a Saviour, with the power to forgive. Forgiveness lies at the heart of the Christian faith. It can heal broken families, it can restore friendships and it can reconcile divided communities. It is in forgiveness that we feel the power of God’s love.’ Queen Elizabeth 2011.
‘For me the teachings of Christ and my own personal accountability before God provide a framework in which I try to lead my life. God sent His only Son “to serve, not to be served”. I, like so many of you, have drawn great comfort in difficult times from Christ’s words and example.’ Queen Elizabeth 2000.
"The Family is not only an institution, but a foundation, the foundation of nearly all institutions." G.K. Chesterton
“Sometimes, when we reach for the stars, we fall short. But we must pick ourselves up again and press on despite the pain.” Ronald Reagan
"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under." Ronald Reagan
"Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged." Ronald Reagan
"The future doesn’t belong to the faint-hearted; it belongs to the brave. Ronald Reagan
"On the belief that career or job are the fundamental purpose of life: “That’s not true. The most important thing in life is your family, your relationship (husband/wife) and your children.” Jordan Peterson
“The marriage relationship is a reflection of the sanctification process that God works into our lives to accomplish His purposes. We need our rough edges rubbed off, and the Lord uses marriage to do it. If you seek what’s best for we, instead of only me, you’ll become more selfless, more loving – more like Christ.” Focus on the Family
"If you want to have a good relationship embed it in the truth." Jordan Petersen
"Who says that a working mother's evening time with her children is necessarily of greater quality than it would have been if she remained at home all day? Her fatigue would make the opposite more likely." Focus on the Family
"Fear not tomorrow, God is already there." Ruth Graham
"If you had known what an unutterable sinner you are, you will thank God, that when He loves, He finds the reason of His love in Himself and not in you." Archibald Brown
"We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God," Abraham Lincoln
"Australia is not a secular country — it is a free country. This is a nation where you have the freedom to follow any belief system you choose. Secularism is just one. It has no greater claim than any other on our society." Scott Morrison (Australian Prime Minister)
"It's better to live courageously than cowardly—everyone knows that." Jordan Peterson
"Let it not be said I was silent when they needed me." William Wilberforce. (We can easily say this of the children today as Wilberforce said it of the slaves in his day).
"Keep up the fight, bring it to your schools. You don't have to be indoctrinated by these teachers who are trying to sell you on Socialism from birth. You don't have to do it. Because you can think for yourselves." Donald Trump Jr.
“Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.” Milton Friedman
"This life is the only hell believers will ever know. But for those who die in their sins, this is their only heaven." - Ray Comfort (LivingWaters.com)
"I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born." Ronald Reagan
“Trump started with [CNN chief] Jeff Zucker and said ‘I hate your network, everyone at CNN is a liar and you should be ashamed,’ ” “Trump kept saying, ‘We’re in a room of liars, the deceitful dishonest media.’ He addressed everyone in the room calling the media dishonest, deceitful liars." Donald Trump at a meeting with dozens of the most powerful, (and self-righteous, arrogant, dishonest) media executives on the planet. 21-11-16
"I'm confident that it's not someone's past that matters; it's their future that matters." Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
"I am not what I ought to be; I am not what I wish to be; I am not what I hope to be. But blessed be God, I am not what I used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am." John Newton.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, not only argued against the worldview which had enslaved his own country through Communism, but he prophetically assessed a major flaw and deception in the prevailing worldview being embraced by the West. He said that a “destructive and irresponsible freedom had been granted boundless space.”
"A private faith that does not act in the face of oppression is no faith at all." William Wilberforce.
"Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again." Ronald Reagan
“Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.” Former President of the United States of America Ronald Reagan.
"Freedom to kill an unborn baby is no freedom at all." Rock Hunter
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery except for those running the government." Winston Churchill
"Compromise where you can, but where you cant, don't. Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right. Even if the whole world is telling you to move. It is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye and say, NO, you move." (Founder of Shield, Peggy Carter in Captain America-Civil War)
"This world is an uncertain realm filled with danger, where honour is undermined by the pursuit of power; freedom is sacrificed; the weak are oppressed by the strong. But there are those who oppose these powerful forces, who dedicate their lives to truth, honour and freedom." - The Three Musketeers.
“The world has changed. I can feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost; for none now live who remember it.” Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings.
"When people's concerns are dismissed as just the sorts of worries of a bunch of deplorables you can understand why they get very, very unhappy." Tony Abbott on the Trump victory. 11-11-16. (We should add the other names to deplorables such as bigot, hater, dinosaur etc.)
"The health of the democracy can partly be measured by the health of its media and I don't think the health of our government, of our democracy, is great right now… I don't think our politics is in a great state and I don't think our media is in a great state." Veteran journalist Kerry O’Brien
“The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’" Psalm 14:1
“With the world so set on tearing itself apart, it don’t seem like such a bad thing to me to put a little bit of it back together.” Desmond Dodd
"It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything." G.K. Chesterton.
"Students cannot possibly receive a well-rounded education without understanding Christianity’s impact on Western Civilization. There would be no Western civilization without the Bible or Christianity." John Stonestreet
"The freedom of Australian business is today gravely threatened by forces whose unswerving and rigid purpose is the entire nationalisation of industry and the establishment of socialism as the permanent form of Australian society; this would mean the elimination of private capital and shareholding, profit, freedom of private enterprise and the transfer of the control of industry to civil servants and union leaders. These forces are centred politically in the Labor Party and industrially in the Trade Unions; they are supported by an extremely powerful and growing section of public opinion."— Charles Denton Kemp WWII
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” George Orwell
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” George Orwell
“When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.” C.S. Lewis
“When all is said and done, reality always has the last word. The truth will always out. Standing up to falsehood, lies, and crazy ideas is never an easy task.” Os Guinness
“Freedom is lost gradually from an uninterested, uninformed, and uninvolved people.” Thomas Jefferson.
"We are called to be the people of the truth, even when the truth is not popular and even when the truth is denied by the culture around us. Christians have found themselves in this position before, and we will again. God’s truth has not changed. The Holy Scriptures have not changed. The gospel of Jesus Christ has not changed. The church’s mission has not changed." Al Mohler
"Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith." Alexis de Tocqueville
“All God’s giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they believed that God would be with them.” Hudson Taylor
"In the name of Jesus, 'Stop'." Telemachus (to the Roman gladiators, before being killed, but succeeding in stopping the practice.)
"A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a higher degree of both." - Milton Friedman.
“Even a dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.” John Calvin
“A very good way of testing any view that you may hold is to ask, ‘Is this view humbling to me and glorifying to God?’ If it is, it is probably right. You will not go far wrong if whatever you are holding is glorifying God and humbling man. But if your view seems to glorify you and to query God, there is no need to argue or to go into details – it is wrong.” - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“Do we delight to talk about free grace and free gift? Pharisees never do so because they realize that these terms make them out to be paupers as all others. They like to feel that they have earned salvation or at least that they have made a contribution towards it.” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“If we go back and read the great story of the Christian church in every period of revival and reawakening, we will find that this note of repentance has always been central and it has always been primary.” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“If you are only a moralist and not a Christian, you will not be ‘abhorring’ evil. There is only one thing that can ever make you ‘abhor that which is evil’, and that is a positive love for God. You will never understand the nature of evil until you understand something of the doctrine of the holiness of God, for evil is the opposite of that.” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." Martin Niemoller
“God’s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite. God sets limits to his patience and forbearance. He warns us over and over again that someday the ax will fall and His judgment will be poured out.” R. C. Sproul
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.” General Douglas Macarthur
"Self-aggrandizement is at the foundation of so much of the misery of the world. It is the reason the powerful and the rich are indifferent to the plight of the poor. It is the reason for most of the violence, crime, and warfare in the world. It is at the heart of most cases of family disintegration.” Timothy Keller
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.” C. S. Lewis
“Because the elementary school doesn't teach theology (the knowledge of God), it must be excused when it doesn't teach anything. The bias of the modern world is so enormous that it will allow a thing to be inefficient as long as it is also irreligious.” - G.K. Chesterton
"The price of freedom is high. It always has been. It's a price I'm willing to pay, and if I'm the only one so be it. But, I'm willing to bet I'm not." Captain America ("The Winter Soldier")
"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil." - C. S. Lewis
“Ideologies do not normally stop at the halfway mark.”- Paul Kelly
“They parade their sin like Sodom. They do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.” Isaiah 3:9
“Your lack of faith – disturbs me!” Darth Vader
"I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid." G.K. Chesterton
"The society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called 'the beginning of wisdom': the fear of God." Ray Comfort
"Jesus made it clear what marriage is: “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” (Matthew 19:4-6).
This is a page where I collect a whole lot of quotes from other people which are thankfully, to be frank, much better than mine above! We live in an age where contrary thought is being cancelled with alarming speed and ferocity. Yet, there is much wisdom and guidance for the future from the past. So, at the risk of being cancelled...
A collection of some favourite quotes:
"For me, the life of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, whose birth we celebrate today, is an inspiration and an anchor in my life. A role‐model of reconciliation and forgiveness, He stretched out His hands in love, acceptance and healing. Christ’s example has taught me to seek to respect and value all people of whatever faith or none." Queen Elizabeth 2014.
‘God sent His only Son “to serve, not to be served.” He restored love and service to the centre of our lives in the person of Jesus Christ’. Queen Elizabeth 2012.
‘God sent into the world a unique person – neither a philosopher nor a general (important though they are) – but a Saviour, with the power to forgive. Forgiveness lies at the heart of the Christian faith. It can heal broken families, it can restore friendships and it can reconcile divided communities. It is in forgiveness that we feel the power of God’s love.’ Queen Elizabeth 2011.
‘For me the teachings of Christ and my own personal accountability before God provide a framework in which I try to lead my life. God sent His only Son “to serve, not to be served”. I, like so many of you, have drawn great comfort in difficult times from Christ’s words and example.’ Queen Elizabeth 2000.
"The Family is not only an institution, but a foundation, the foundation of nearly all institutions." G.K. Chesterton
“Sometimes, when we reach for the stars, we fall short. But we must pick ourselves up again and press on despite the pain.” Ronald Reagan
"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under." Ronald Reagan
"Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged." Ronald Reagan
"The future doesn’t belong to the faint-hearted; it belongs to the brave. Ronald Reagan
"On the belief that career or job are the fundamental purpose of life: “That’s not true. The most important thing in life is your family, your relationship (husband/wife) and your children.” Jordan Peterson
“The marriage relationship is a reflection of the sanctification process that God works into our lives to accomplish His purposes. We need our rough edges rubbed off, and the Lord uses marriage to do it. If you seek what’s best for we, instead of only me, you’ll become more selfless, more loving – more like Christ.” Focus on the Family
"If you want to have a good relationship embed it in the truth." Jordan Petersen
"Who says that a working mother's evening time with her children is necessarily of greater quality than it would have been if she remained at home all day? Her fatigue would make the opposite more likely." Focus on the Family
"Fear not tomorrow, God is already there." Ruth Graham
"If you had known what an unutterable sinner you are, you will thank God, that when He loves, He finds the reason of His love in Himself and not in you." Archibald Brown
"We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God," Abraham Lincoln
"Australia is not a secular country — it is a free country. This is a nation where you have the freedom to follow any belief system you choose. Secularism is just one. It has no greater claim than any other on our society." Scott Morrison (Australian Prime Minister)
"It's better to live courageously than cowardly—everyone knows that." Jordan Peterson
"Let it not be said I was silent when they needed me." William Wilberforce. (We can easily say this of the children today as Wilberforce said it of the slaves in his day).
"Keep up the fight, bring it to your schools. You don't have to be indoctrinated by these teachers who are trying to sell you on Socialism from birth. You don't have to do it. Because you can think for yourselves." Donald Trump Jr.
“Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.” Milton Friedman
"This life is the only hell believers will ever know. But for those who die in their sins, this is their only heaven." - Ray Comfort (LivingWaters.com)
"I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born." Ronald Reagan
“Trump started with [CNN chief] Jeff Zucker and said ‘I hate your network, everyone at CNN is a liar and you should be ashamed,’ ” “Trump kept saying, ‘We’re in a room of liars, the deceitful dishonest media.’ He addressed everyone in the room calling the media dishonest, deceitful liars." Donald Trump at a meeting with dozens of the most powerful, (and self-righteous, arrogant, dishonest) media executives on the planet. 21-11-16
"I'm confident that it's not someone's past that matters; it's their future that matters." Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
"I am not what I ought to be; I am not what I wish to be; I am not what I hope to be. But blessed be God, I am not what I used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am." John Newton.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, not only argued against the worldview which had enslaved his own country through Communism, but he prophetically assessed a major flaw and deception in the prevailing worldview being embraced by the West. He said that a “destructive and irresponsible freedom had been granted boundless space.”
"A private faith that does not act in the face of oppression is no faith at all." William Wilberforce.
"Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again." Ronald Reagan
“Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.” Former President of the United States of America Ronald Reagan.
"Freedom to kill an unborn baby is no freedom at all." Rock Hunter
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery except for those running the government." Winston Churchill
"Compromise where you can, but where you cant, don't. Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right. Even if the whole world is telling you to move. It is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye and say, NO, you move." (Founder of Shield, Peggy Carter in Captain America-Civil War)
"This world is an uncertain realm filled with danger, where honour is undermined by the pursuit of power; freedom is sacrificed; the weak are oppressed by the strong. But there are those who oppose these powerful forces, who dedicate their lives to truth, honour and freedom." - The Three Musketeers.
“The world has changed. I can feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost; for none now live who remember it.” Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings.
"When people's concerns are dismissed as just the sorts of worries of a bunch of deplorables you can understand why they get very, very unhappy." Tony Abbott on the Trump victory. 11-11-16. (We should add the other names to deplorables such as bigot, hater, dinosaur etc.)
"The health of the democracy can partly be measured by the health of its media and I don't think the health of our government, of our democracy, is great right now… I don't think our politics is in a great state and I don't think our media is in a great state." Veteran journalist Kerry O’Brien
“The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’" Psalm 14:1
“With the world so set on tearing itself apart, it don’t seem like such a bad thing to me to put a little bit of it back together.” Desmond Dodd
"It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything." G.K. Chesterton.
"Students cannot possibly receive a well-rounded education without understanding Christianity’s impact on Western Civilization. There would be no Western civilization without the Bible or Christianity." John Stonestreet
"The freedom of Australian business is today gravely threatened by forces whose unswerving and rigid purpose is the entire nationalisation of industry and the establishment of socialism as the permanent form of Australian society; this would mean the elimination of private capital and shareholding, profit, freedom of private enterprise and the transfer of the control of industry to civil servants and union leaders. These forces are centred politically in the Labor Party and industrially in the Trade Unions; they are supported by an extremely powerful and growing section of public opinion."— Charles Denton Kemp WWII
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” George Orwell
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” George Orwell
“When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.” C.S. Lewis
“When all is said and done, reality always has the last word. The truth will always out. Standing up to falsehood, lies, and crazy ideas is never an easy task.” Os Guinness
“Freedom is lost gradually from an uninterested, uninformed, and uninvolved people.” Thomas Jefferson.
"We are called to be the people of the truth, even when the truth is not popular and even when the truth is denied by the culture around us. Christians have found themselves in this position before, and we will again. God’s truth has not changed. The Holy Scriptures have not changed. The gospel of Jesus Christ has not changed. The church’s mission has not changed." Al Mohler
"Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith." Alexis de Tocqueville
“All God’s giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they believed that God would be with them.” Hudson Taylor
"In the name of Jesus, 'Stop'." Telemachus (to the Roman gladiators, before being killed, but succeeding in stopping the practice.)
"A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a higher degree of both." - Milton Friedman.
“Even a dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.” John Calvin
“A very good way of testing any view that you may hold is to ask, ‘Is this view humbling to me and glorifying to God?’ If it is, it is probably right. You will not go far wrong if whatever you are holding is glorifying God and humbling man. But if your view seems to glorify you and to query God, there is no need to argue or to go into details – it is wrong.” - Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“Do we delight to talk about free grace and free gift? Pharisees never do so because they realize that these terms make them out to be paupers as all others. They like to feel that they have earned salvation or at least that they have made a contribution towards it.” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“If we go back and read the great story of the Christian church in every period of revival and reawakening, we will find that this note of repentance has always been central and it has always been primary.” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“If you are only a moralist and not a Christian, you will not be ‘abhorring’ evil. There is only one thing that can ever make you ‘abhor that which is evil’, and that is a positive love for God. You will never understand the nature of evil until you understand something of the doctrine of the holiness of God, for evil is the opposite of that.” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." Martin Niemoller
“God’s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite. God sets limits to his patience and forbearance. He warns us over and over again that someday the ax will fall and His judgment will be poured out.” R. C. Sproul
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.” General Douglas Macarthur
"Self-aggrandizement is at the foundation of so much of the misery of the world. It is the reason the powerful and the rich are indifferent to the plight of the poor. It is the reason for most of the violence, crime, and warfare in the world. It is at the heart of most cases of family disintegration.” Timothy Keller
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.” C. S. Lewis
“Because the elementary school doesn't teach theology (the knowledge of God), it must be excused when it doesn't teach anything. The bias of the modern world is so enormous that it will allow a thing to be inefficient as long as it is also irreligious.” - G.K. Chesterton
"The price of freedom is high. It always has been. It's a price I'm willing to pay, and if I'm the only one so be it. But, I'm willing to bet I'm not." Captain America ("The Winter Soldier")
"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil." - C. S. Lewis
“Ideologies do not normally stop at the halfway mark.”- Paul Kelly
“They parade their sin like Sodom. They do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.” Isaiah 3:9
“Your lack of faith – disturbs me!” Darth Vader
"I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid." G.K. Chesterton
"The society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called 'the beginning of wisdom': the fear of God." Ray Comfort
"Jesus made it clear what marriage is: “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” (Matthew 19:4-6).