Quotes about Divorce
You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.
- John Barrymore
Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.
- Mike Huckabee
Inevitably, the Enemy will do anything to divorce prayer and proclamation - to stop the evangelist praying and the intercessor evangelising. Why? Because the two combined are explosive!
- Pete Greig
A priest must not marry a woman defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
- Leviticus 21:7
He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,
- Leviticus 21:14
If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.
- Deuteronomy 24:1
If, after leaving his house, she goes and becomes another man’s wife,
- Deuteronomy 24:2
and the second man hates her, writes her a certificate of divorce, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house, or if he dies,
- Deuteronomy 24:3
then the husband who divorced her first may not remarry her after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination to the LORD. You must not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
- Deuteronomy 24:4
Shaharaim had sons in the country of Moab after he had divorced his wives Hushim and Baara.
- 1 Chronicles 8:8
This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
- Isaiah 50:1
“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 3:1