Quotes About Adoption

It is now clear that faith is a singular pledge of paternal love, treasured up for the sons whom he has adopted.

So long as we are adopted by God in Christ, we are destined for slaughter. If

Having once adopted us and enlightened our minds by his Word, he keeps the torch of the Word blazing before our eyes, that we may in faith keep our minds upon the judgment and punishment of evil which the impious confidently ignore.

he refers rather to their adoption because God's grace is the more striking when he out of all mankind chooses some few to be his own people.

We acknowledge, indeed, that Christ in human nature is called a Son, not like believers by gratuitous adoption merely, but the true, natural, and, therefore, only Son, this being the mark which distinguishes him from all others. Those of us who are regenerated to a new life God honours with the name of sons; the name of true and only-begotten Son he bestows on Christ alone. But how is he an only Son in so great a multitude of brethren, except that he possesses by nature what we acquire by gift?

THE GOAL OF God's work in us is to bring our lives into harmony and agreement with His own righteousness, and so to manifest to ourselves and others our identity as His adopted children.

The illumination of   our minds by the Holy Spirit belongs to our renewal, and thus faith   flows from regeneration as from its source; but since it is by the same   faith that we receive Christ, who sanctifies us by his Spirit, on that   account it is said to be the beginning of our adoption.

To this it must be added that a sincere love of the law of God is a sure sign of our adoption because it is a work of the Spirit. . .

Who does not see that Paul descends from a general to a   particular adoption, in order to teach us, that not all who occupy a   place in the Church are to be accounted as true members of the Church?  

He became sin so you could be holy. He was broken so you could be whole. He was a man of sorrow, so you could have joy. He was bruised for your iniquity. He fasted so you could feast. By His stripes, you were healed. He bore poverty, so you could righteously prosper. He felt orphaned so you could be adopted as sons. Let us begin to see Him not so much as a teacher or moral guide, but as one who stepped in and took our place.

My family life, my adoption - it could be related to the songs, but I think the songs are deeper than that. They're not just about this experience.

It's the greatest thing that ever happened in my life, my son.

A child's adoption carries the worst cruelty and grief; indeed, it separates from real parental love; such love nowhere can be possible; it also eliminates genuine identity. It executes a crime of selfishness in the context of deprivation for one and comfort for another.

On the day of human rights, I dare to say that since 1948, the United Nations fail, to adopt the universal solidification of human rights notion within its precise context of a free and equal world. Indeed, human exists; however, not the rights yet.

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

There is no question I owe Mia a great deal for adopting me. For that gesture, I still love her.

If you're adopted, you can't help but feel, somehow or other, deep, deep, deep down inside that you don't belong. It makes you feel like you've got a question mark inside you.

I've thought about adopting, but I'm a bit paranoid that because I'm gay and disabled I'd be put straight off the list. My mother thinks that I would jump the queue because they like minorities adopting. I have great genes, though, and I would like to pass them on.

I think people have an appetite for VR at $200, $300, $400. It's something so new and improves so quickly, people do have an appetite to buy that. If people are getting a new VR headset every two or three years that's incredibly improved, you want to go do that.

I guess any simple idea that is really good will catch on quickly.

School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly.

Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared.

I think when I graduated from my high school in '84, they were just bringing computers in. I don't even know if they were for classes. They might have just been for the administration. It was nowhere on the radar for anybody that I know.