Quotes About Foundation

And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.

Our healthy shame is essential as the foundation of our spirituality. By reminding us of our essential limitations, our healthy shame lets us know that we are not God. Our healthy shame points us in the direction of some larger meaning. Our healthy shame is the psychological ground of our humility.

Every fat [vat] must stand upon his bottom.

They who strive to build up a firm faith in Scripture through disputation are doing things backwards.

holding firmly to the principle that true religion is founded upon obedience. Unless

For the truth of God is sufficiently solid and certain in itself, and can receive no better confirmation from any other quarter than from itself; but our faith being slender and weak, unless it be supported on every side, and sustained by every assistance, immediately shakes, fluctuates, totters, and falls.

set before them the coming of Christ, who was both the foundation of the covenant and the bond of mutual communion between God and the people. Therefore

The church is, as Paul declares, founded on the doctrine of Apostles and Prophets [Eph 2:2]; but these men [of the Roman Catholic Church] speak as if they imagined that the mother owed her birth to the daughter.

And this is the main difference between the gospel and philosophy: for   though the philosophers speak excellently and with great judgment on   the subject of morals, yet whatever excellency shines forth in their   precepts, it is, as it were, a beautiful superstructure without a   foundation; for by omitting principles, they offer a mutilated   doctrine, like a body without a head.

we should not fill ourselves with hopes which, being empty of God's Word, are like so much wind. On

And we must so discuss them as to bear in mind that this is the main hinge on which religion turns,3 so that we devote the greater attention and care to it. For unless you first of all grasp what your relationship to God is, and the nature of his judgment concerning you, you have neither a foundation on which to establish your salvation nor one on which to build piety toward God. But the need to know this will better appear from the knowledge itself.

The church is compared to tents because it has no solid structure in the world. It

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

You develop a sensibility when you're a young child. Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.

Our emotional map is laid down mainly in relationship with our earliest caregiver in the first couple of years of life.

When life takes away the forms that you thought were the foundation of your life, what's left? The life that needs no foundation - that is the foundation. The formless. The essence.

Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.

But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.

The home marks a child for life.

Helping people getting a great start in life, a great foundation, is an investment.

Owning a property is great as that's my base and the centre of my family life.

There is no sure foundation set on blood, No certain life achieved by others' death.

For me faith is the foundation and support of one's life.

The most important phase of a child's life was the beginning of it. He must be started right.