Quotes About Family

Leave the matter of religion to the family circle, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions," said President Ulysses S. Grant in 1875. "Keep the church and state forever separate.

an especially effective way to reduce abortions is to promote access to long-acting contraception.

Their father told the kids that there is no hell! And my daughter says she wants to move away from our 'fundamentalism.' So I guess it's up to me." Her voice is almost ragged with exasperation.

Pray for our CEF worker who has been accused of inappropriate behavior with the children," she finally says in an agitated voice. "If these accusations are allowed to continue, Lord, it could devastate the man, and his family, and the ministry.

Betsy DeVos's brother, Erik Prince, founded the private contracting firm Blackwater

Dad told me, 'Mommy doesn't need antidepressants, you see. She needs flowers and sometimes she needs antiques.

Your behavior inside your home is the real indicator of your character. Not in the workplace, not in school. Sure, it's nice to look good when you leave your home, and make a bella figure. But in terms of your identity, the most important thing is who you are with your parents, with your children, with your cousins. Th most important thing is how you behave with he people who really matter.

to expect more of my primary partnership than staying together for the sake of the children

all of Scripture is about Bet Av—"The Father's House." God longs for every human being to come into His house and to know His love and care. It is only when we find our place in His family that we find joy and peace and salvation.

To those of us who are alienated from home, marginalized, cast out, or lost, God is crying out: I am your Father! I will do anything to buy you back, restore you to my family. Or as Jeremiah 29:11 says, "to give you hope and a future.

I love you, Shanna. I want you to share my life and that which belongs to me. I want to build you a mansion, as you father did for your mother, as my parent did here. I want to give you children, with dark hair and light, and watch them grow, bathed in our love. I hav properties on the James. The land is good, and 'twill nourish our offsprings. It only waits your word to say where the house will be.

Kathleen G. Nadeau

Family history of anxiety, depression,

You didn't have parents or society telling you that you should love one another because you were brothers, you just did it by yourselves. There is no way, no earthly way, that that can ever be called a failure. You succeeded with Huck more than most people ever succeed with anyone.

You sure did break that boy's heart." "I know," Krissa agreed. She didn't mind Jewel saying that. At least someone in this house had been on his side. "But I'm here now." "That's true," Jewel conceded, and the two women exchanged a look. We will help him through this.

Dad's Buick—what a great car it had been all these years—

Conner hadn't liked leaving the gravesite with his father still not buried. But he'd learned from his grandmother's funeral that you have to go. It's expected. Nobody hangs around the cemetary. Grief—a little or a lot—is tucked into your pocket and carried away.

What I wouldn't give to share one more morning with my dad.

Kids? It's like living with homeless people. They're cute but they just chase you around all day long going, "Can I have a dollar? I'm missing a shoe! I need a ride!"

FINDING FORGIVENESS : THE EXTRAORDINARY LEGACY OF AMY BIEHL AND HER FAMILY

THE PARABLE OF THE LABORER AND THE BOOTS Long ago there lived a man called Frederick who worked hard to provide for his wife and his children by taking odd jobs as a laborer in his village. Frederick and his

stand at her side when she went to the queen. He was her true family, he and little Molly. And they both loved her and wanted her back home. Walter's idea was

Peace — that was the other name for home.

Home ought to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life.