Quotes About Nurturing

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

Rather than counting on the acquisition of knowledge to support and defend the faith, a trust-centered faith values and honors the wise—those who through experience and mature spiritual habits have earned the right to lead and are given a central role in nurturing faith in others.

The role of the church is to be doctor and nurse, not judge and jury.

Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue.

If you want to know who the real heroes of world history are, just look at the mothers.

But Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.

The men are shepherds; they raise livestock, and they have brought their flocks and herds and all that they own.í

You shall do likewise with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but on the eighth day you are to give them to Me.

She picked up the grain and went into the town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. And she brought out what she had saved from her meal and gave it to Naomi.

“Do what you think is best,” her husband Elkanah replied, “and stay here until you have weaned him. Only may the LORD confirm His word.” So Hannah stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.

And the sister of Tahpenes bore Hadad a son named Genubath. Tahpenes herself weaned him in Pharaohís palace, and Genubath lived there among the sons of Pharaoh.

though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my motherís womb I guided the widow—

Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children born in oneís youth.

He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.

Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Be sure to know the state of your flocks, and pay close attention to your herds;

She brings him good and not harm all the days of her life.

She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands.

She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.

She rises while it is still night to provide food for her household and portions for her maidservants.

She appraises a field and buys it; from her earnings she plants a vineyard.

She stretches out her hands to the distaff and grasps the spindle with her fingers.

She makes coverings for her bed; her clothing is fine linen and purple.

She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.