Quotes About Family

If you're not a believer in Jesus, who looks after you? Who will come for you? To whom are you joined? Do you have a family? If you will repent of your sin and trust in Jesus, you can be part of the family of God.

If you don't tell your kids/grandkids what God has done for you, don't expect their hearts to be captured by your God! Worst

We must not think that action alone is successful Christ-following. In God's eyes, the motives behind our actions are of paramount importance. You can want a godly family or a successful career or a low handicap or a beautiful lawn, but if you want them for yourself and not the glory of God, it's a fail.

Proverbs 18:22 says, "He who finds a wife finds a good thing.

Scripture is so clear that love for God must translate into love for those closest to us.2

Your highest loyalty after the Lord is to your family. Your first priority after God is your wife then your kids.

Nothing is more important than your family. Nothing comes before your responsibility to watch out for them and provide a home safe from any assault upon them, body or soul.

Men act like men at home when they realize they will be held responsible for how well they represented God to their family.

As a father, you are patterning your discipline after your heavenly Father, whom your children need to realize you deeply respect and love.

families), but it can still be helpful as one image among

Must have made for interesting family arguments," said Richard. "Young lady, since you insist on breaking the known laws of physics, there's no dessert for you tonight." Dr. Knowbokov shrugged. "She had an answer for that." "Oh?" "She said it wasn't her fault I didn't know all the laws of physics.

I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.

since I was a little boy, she had always wanted me to go. She was always sending me off on a bus someplace, to elementary school, to camp, to relatives in Kentucky, to college. She pushed me away from her just as she'd pushed my elder siblings away when we lived in New York, literally shoving them out the front door when they left for college.

People find different ways of keeping the ones they loved among the living, he said cautiously. Children. Memories. The names of things.

To marry, to start a family, to accept all the children that come, and to help them in this insecure world, is the best that a man can do.

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

A family who smokes together, chokes together.

Within South Korean Christian churches, there has been an explosion of ministries of pastoral care and counseling in recent decades. Every family has its own story of trauma to tell, and many people seek understanding of how they can find healing for their trauma. In situations of trauma, people seek religious answers to why things have happened as they have, and what resources will bring the possibility of surviving and thriving again. Within the interreligious context

Fathering and mothering are roles freely assumed but always with the design of showing them to be theatrical. It is the intention of parents in such families to make it plain to their children that they all play cultural and societal roles, that they are only roles, and that they are all truly concrete persons behind them. Therefore, children also learn that they have a family only by choosing to have it, by a collective act to be a family with each other.

Many people feel like they were born into the wrong family. Nevertheless, adults must take responsiblity for the pain of the past and create a productive life in the present.

Kids grow up in troubled homes thinking that they have the power to change their parents. Over time, they realize that they are mistaken.

All we have left, when all is said and done, is the content of our character and our most cherished relationships.

Now, Max, I think we both know your parents aren't missionaries." I opened my eyes wide. "No? Well, for God's sake, don't tell them. They'd be crushed. Thinking they're doing the Lord's work and all.

If you want to know, it was the capitalists who invented marriage in order to protect the laws of inheritance.