Quotes About Home

How we need more "homemakers" so that all who live in this transient, contemporary world might have a place to belong, to feel loved and valued, to serve and be served, to give and receive and celebrate all that is good. So

the fundamental mission of motherhood now is the same as it always was: to nurture, protect, and instruct children, to create a home environment that enables them to learn and grow, to help them develop a heart for God and his purposes, and to send them out into the world prepared to live both fully and meaningfully.

how to create a home that nourishes, nurtures, and sustains life and beauty. It is all about how to order your living space and what happens there to embody the joy and beauty of God's own Spirit.

Home is the place in which we picture, day after ordinary day, the fact that love will endure, that grief will be healed, that joy, one day, will last forever and the celebration will never end.

We were created for belonging, made to behold the heritage of our creative diligence in children and grandchildren and in the legacy of a home forged and tended in a specific place on earth.

we want our home to be a strong shelter in the midst of the storms of life.

Home is your garden of life, so to speak, and you are free to order it and plant it as you will. But all great works of life must be planned in order to make them productive, useful, and flourishing.

Give foundations of strength and inspiration to these precious ones, but give them wings as well. Prepare them to take risks, to live by faith, so that they can take the messages and cherished values they learned at home and share them with a hurting world.

During these years, God seemed to whisper to me in my quiet times, Give foundations of strength and inspiration to these precious ones, but give them wings as well. Prepare them to take risks, to live by faith, so that they can take the messages and cherished values they learned at home and share them with a hurting world.

am driving us home to Mrs. Lush in her shiny kitchen with a checked tablecloth in a house where the grass looks as if it's been Hoovered. You see, only in the land of Croca-Colas does the sun shine in Technicolor. Life lived at the end of the rainbow.

How could I not love you, my sweet Annora? You brought me back to life again. You made the house a home. You made my daughters laugh. You even made me look up again and see God. I want you to come back and be part of my life. Now. Always.

The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . . Listening to music.

you, Aunt Helga? Are you in hell?" Helga appeared to consider the question seriously, but when her answer came it was with a dismissive gesture. "Oh, no, honey. I'm all right. I'd rather still be at home, but then I'd be completely dependent on people who have their own lives to lead, and that's not very agreeable, either. I don't like it, but I can't say I don't belong here. It's just another thing to make the best of.

I think those people are fantastically lucky who live in houses where they can call out and expect someone to answer.

these entries we can see Smith focusing on the human landscape and the tension he felt between isolation and the teeming churn of collectives, a tension he never reconciled, and many themes of home—creating or finding a home, leaving and returning home.

We were tired of living in a house.

What makes a home? Take your hands in his. This plus this. What makes the unsaid audible? The distance between us.

I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.

War, in some ways, is merciful to men. It makes them heroes if they are the victors. If they are the vanquished - they do not live to see their homes taken, their wives widowed. But if you are a woman - you must live through defeat...

It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.

One great reason why clergymen's households are generally unhappy is because the clergyman is so much at home or close about the house.

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Come live in my heart and pay no rent.