Quotes about Wedding
“When you are invited to a wedding banquet, do not sit in the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited.
- Luke 14:8
On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,
- John 2:1
and Jesus and His disciples had also been invited to the wedding.
- John 2:2
When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to Him, “They have no more wine.”
- John 2:3
and said, “Everyone serves the fine wine first, and then the cheap wine after the guests are drunk. But you have saved the fine wine until now!”
- John 2:10
The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom stands and listens for him, and is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.
- John 3:29
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
- Joseph Addison
Jacob the trickster gets his due. After pulling off the ruse, he has to run for his life and spends 20 years in exile with his uncle. Uncle Laban then gives Jacob a dose of his own medicine by planting an unwanted sister in his wedding bed and by repeatedly changing his wages as head shepherd.
- Philip Yancey
We have been chosen from the mass of humanity to live in an intimate union with Christ. It is amazing even to be tolerated by God. It would be an honor simply to be invited to the wedding! It is beyond comprehension to be the beloved bride of the King of kings and Lord of lords! When you understand this, you can't help but live life aware of the honor, privilege, and blessing that are yours.
- Timothy Lane
And I will sing how sad Proserpina Unto a grave and gloomy Lord was wed, And lure the silver-breasted Helena Back from the lotus meadows of the dead, So shalt thou see that awful loveliness For which two mighty Hosts met fearfully in war's abyss! And
- Oscar Wilde
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
- Heinrich Heine
Hope is the wedding of two freedoms, human and divine, in the acceptance of a love that is at once a promise and the beginning of fulfillment.
- Thomas Merton