Family Quotes

Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy.

~ Ruth Hurmence Green

It is hard for us to recognize it now, but Peter and Paul were introducing the first Christian family to an entirely new community, a community that transcends the rigid hierarchy of human institutions, a community in which submission is mutual and all are free.

~ Rachel Held Evans

If you want to completely destroy a child, all you have to do is mold them into your vision of what you want them to be. If you want to completely liberate a child, all you have to do is grow them into the person they were created to be. The former cannot see God in the child. The latter can see nothing less.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The break of a family is the break of society. We must never break the bond of love and peace that unite us in sacred harmony.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are brothers and sisters. We are a sacred family.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is the little act of kindness that touches our heart and blossom our life with gladness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Christmas is a sacred festival. It is celebration of Christ love for Humankind. And the love that bind us together.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Christmas is a celebration of Christ love for Humankind. And the love that bind us together as sacred family.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is the fruit of a sacred-soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We may have different points of arguments from perspectives of belief, faith and religion.But we must not hate each other. We are one human family.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Even knowing that my presence brought a shadow over the lives of my loved ones, I can't regret the experiences I've had with them. They gave me life, becoming an integral part of my soul. They healed me when I was broken and somehow they recovered those parts of me, I thought lost forever.

~ J.d. Stroube

Being a mother is not about ‘birthing a child into the world.’ Rather, it is about repeatedly ‘birthing into the child’ a steady sense of their inestimable worth, a prized understanding of their authentic self, a conviction that the impossible is largely the stuff of myth, and an utterly unwavering belief that cold actions of men never represent the warm heart of God. It is the relentless act of birthing these things into the innermost soul of a thirsty child that makes a woman a mother.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Being a mother is not about ‘birthing a child into the world.’ Rather, it is about repeatedly ‘birthing into the child’ a steady sense of their inestimable worth, a prized understanding of their authentic self, a conviction that the impossible is largely the stuff of myth, and an utterly unwavering belief that the cold actions of men never represent the warm heart of God. It is the relentless act of birthing these things into the innermost soul of a thirsty child that makes a woman a mother.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Love is the heartbeat of the sacred soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The black of the ocean waves was the color of the sorrow in my breast, a sorrow that was never far away and always visible.

~ Barbara T. Cerny

God himself had sent me away. I was truly now among the damned.

~ Barbara T. Cerny

I was once a man, not a great man, not a saintly man, but a good man, and a man nonetheless.

~ Barbara T. Cerny

I did not choose to be a monster—a shell of a man—half-human, half-fiend. I am a tiefling. I am what I am.

~ Barbara T. Cerny

My life was going exactly where I wanted it to until the Devil showed up.

~ Barbara T. Cerny

Iona stared at me for a long time. “You are going to leave me a widow before I have a chance to become a bride.

~ Barbara T. Cerny

Then it kissed me—not as a man would kiss a lover, not with tenderness or even passion. This was a kiss that stole the soul of men. Revulsion at this creature’s kiss was instantly replaced by the warmth stealing through my veins, as if my missing blood were being replenished and contrived to heal me. I craved to keep kissing the beast. My entire being awakened to that kiss feeding me ecstasy, feeding me life.

~ Barbara T. Cerny

I breathe in... The sights and smells Of this city I’ve come to know... So well I gaze... Across the turquoise ocean Where the waves Liberate my spirit... From its shell I breathe in... The brilliant sky line Where the birds Emerge shyly From the dappled sunshine I breathe in... The gently... Blowing winds That soothe me Like a mother, around her child I breathe in... The sounds of laughter Pure and pretty Like the golden-green butterfly I’m always after I breathe in... The closeness, I have always shared With people, Who almost knew me, Almost cared I breathe in... The comfort Of my home, The safe walls, The scents of childhood On the pillows I breathe in...the silence Of my own heart Aching with tenderness... With memories.. Of home I breathe... in... The fragrance Of love, and moist sand The one... His roses left... On both my hands And I just keep on breathing Every moment As much as I can Preserving it, in my body For the day It can’t So I breathe in.. Once again.. Feeling life's energy Fizzing through my cells Never knowing What awaits me Or what's going to happen to me.. Next I breathe in This moment... Knowing it's either life Or it's death I close my eyes, And breathe in Just believing in myself.

~ Sanober Khan

The world is full of men who want to be right, when actually the secret of a man's strength and his pathway to true honor is his ability to admit fault when he has failed. God wants to fill the church with men who can say they are wrong when THEY ARE WRONG. A man who is willing to humble himself before God and his family and say:I was wrong. will find that his family has all the confidence in the world in him and will much more readily follow him. If he stubbornly refuses to repent or admit he was wrong, their confidence in him and in his leadership erodes.

~ Jim Anderson

Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.

~ Alan Sakowitz

(Patrick Henry) He understood that the home was the foundation of a stable society and that the authority a man exercised within the larger society was rooted in the authority exercised at home. Thus ... the training ground for all sound leadership is the family.

~ David J. Vaughan

Jackson lead as he lived, sometimes with his heart, sometimes with his mind, sometimes with both.

~ Jon Meacham

Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christ-like, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.

~ John Piper

The only principle which will make you more content, less bitter is to live a life that has Less excuses, more results. Less distraction, more focus. Less me, more we. Live with Gratitude not with Greytitude

~ Abhysheq Shukla

Nobody has ever taken a photograph of something they want to forget. We can build a wall of happy Kodak moments around ourselves, a wall of our Christmases, birthdays, baby showers and weddings, but we can never forget that celluloid film is see-through, that behind it, all the misery of real life waits for our wall to collapse someday.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

My mother supported my every artistic ambition. I don't wonder why. I'm beyond grateful. But when I think of my grandparents barely surviving the war, I feel so pampered. What an indulgence to be an artist. So this is it, this is all I can offer, to the living and to the dead.

~ Leela Corman

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

I couldn’t comprehend why she still hadn’t stopped him because it’s clearly every mother’s responsibility to protect her children. After all, that’s the trust that bonds a mother and her child together, forever

~ Veronika Gasparyan

I hope that I am a good man … it would be enough.

~ James Qualls

The mother was holding a baby, had a stroller with what looked like twin girls around three, and had a five-year-old boy who was running around the shelves with a finger shoved up his nose. I considered warning him that if he fell, he would poke his brain out, but it struck me that losing intelligence was not something he was worried about.

~ Eileen Cook

…the traditional family structure that More supported in her writings enabled women to 'be intelligent, rational, virtuous, and noble creatures, capable of great intellectual and moral achievements. They had the potential for immense influence on their husbands and sons, on their relations, their servants, and the poor.' More held, therefore, … 'the ideal of rational domesticity helped to liberate the individual within a supportive family framework.

~ Karen Swallow Prior

I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my mother's mother. Your father's mother's mother's mother. I hardly knew her. I didn't have any interest in knowing her. I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.What kind of letter? my grandmother asked.I told her to write whatever she wanted to write.You want a letter from me? she asked.I told her yes.Oh, God bless you, she said.The letter she gave me was sixty-seven pages long. It was the story of her life. She made my request into her own. Listen to me.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.

~ John Sedgwick

The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

~ Louise Erdrich

After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States entered into World War II to protect our way of life and to help liberate those who had fallen under the Axis occupation. The country rallied to produce one of the largest war efforts in history. Young men volunteered to join the Armed Forces, while others were drafted. Women went to work in factories and took military jobs. Everyone collected their used cooking grease and metals to be used for munitions. They rationed gas and groceries. Factories now were producing airplanes, weapons, and military vehicles. They all wanted to do their part. And they did, turning America into a war machine. The nation was in full support to help our boys win the war and come home quickly.Grandpa wanted to do his part too.

~ Kara Martinelli

The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, embarrassed by its nakedness.

~ Stuart Haddon