Quotes About Family

Your family will flourish when decisions are guided by the Lord—the head of your household.

Homemaking is a passion you can pass on from generation to generation.

Home is the best place to teach young men and women about God's kind of love.

No role brings greater joy or blessing than being a parent.

A godly mother loves God with all her heart, soul, mind, and strength, and teaches her children to do the same.

Raising your children to love and serve Jesus is fulfilling one of God's highest callings upon your life.

To last, a marriage and family must be built on love—love for God, and love for one another.

Amid the joy of raising children will be some of the hardest work you'll ever do.

God's beautiful woman spares no effort to provide the best she can for her beloved family.

Praying for your children is the most powerful way you can care for them.

Parenting is a partnership. Loving each other has a big impact on your children.

It takes dedicated parents to produce consecrated children.

Hannah's magic cure for every ill," Nat had said. "Blueberry cake and a kitten." Kit smiled to see it working its charm on Prudence. But there was an invisible ingredient that made the cure unfailing. The Bible name for it was love.

Elizabeth George Speare

Tell them the truth if you like, responded Kit airily, knowing quite well that Judith, for all her disapproval, would never give her away. The common bond of just being young together in that household was strong enough for that.

I just wish it hadn't happened four days before Thanksgiving. It's going to spoil the holiday to have everyone so gloomy.

we must take care of our families wherever we find them.

Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.

My mother has made choices in her life, as we all must, and she is at peace with them. I can see her peace. She did not cop out on herself. The benefits of her choices are massive-a long, stable marriage to a man she still calls her best friend; a family that has extended now into grandchildren who adore her; a certainty in her own strength. Maybe some things were sacrificed, and my dad made his sacrifices, too-but who amongst us lives without sacrifice?

the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.

Still it is true that many same-sex couples want nothing more than to join society as fully integrated socially responsible family-centered taxpaying Little League-coaching nation-serving respectably married citizens. So why not welcome them in Why not recruit them by the vanload to sweep in on heroic wings and save the flagging and battered old institution of matrimony from a bunch of apathetic ne'er-do-well heterosexual deadbeats like me

I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK because he is so loved. He is surrounded by souls who would do anything to help him. And not only that--he has wisdom and patience of his own, buried deep inside his being, which will only reveal themselves over time and will always carry him through any trial. He is a gift from God to all of us.

He is only happy when he can maintain himself - mentally and spiritually - at the intersection between a vertical line and horizontal one, in a state of perfect balance. For this, he needs to know where he is located every moment, both in his relationship to the divine and to his family here on earth. If he loses that balance, he loses his power.

Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family's history.