Quotes about Divorced
But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it.
- Leviticus 22:13
Every vow a widow or divorced woman pledges to fulfill is binding on her.
- Numbers 30:9
For a man of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind, solved the problem of sex rather well.
- JM Coetzee
An interest in souls divorced from an interest in Scripture leaves us without a text that shapes these souls. In the same way, an interest in Scripture divorced from an interest in souls leaves us without any material for the text to work on.
- Eugene Peterson
When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.
- Brennan Manning
The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its Biblical sense, but something else and something less.
- AW Tozer
The vast majority of those who are unchurched are not actively seeking a church home. Further, they are divorced from seeing it as a need in their life, even when they are open to and interested in spiritual things.
- James Emery White