Quotes About Adoption

God adopted Abraham as the forefather of a new people, and in doing so he also adopted the mythic categories within which Abraham—and everyone else—thought. But God did not simply leave Abraham in his mythic world. Rather, God transformed the ancient myths so that Israel's story would come to focus on its God, the real one.

There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it.

You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.

He died and rose from the dead saying, "My Father is your Father." You are not an orphan. You are not an extra. You have His name.

One adopted their language, that of the teachers and the schools, one had none of one's own. At first it was like a release, like a key, like a road. The only road in. Much later one discovers that what one was let into, at that time, was a tunnel. From which one can never again escape. Not entirely. Not in this life.

An excessive emphasis on invention, rather than on adoption, is a major factor in the low success rate of innovation. The diagram of figure 1.1 compares invention and innovation as practices.

When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaohís daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”

And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her in as his own daughter.

When he was set outside, Pharaohís daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.

Not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.

He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,