Quotes about Family

Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if you don't believe me, ask a child what it's like to grow up with an unhappy parent, or ask parents what they suffer if they have an unhappy child.

Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?

Second, honoring parents is how nearly all of us come to recognize that there is a moral authority above us to whom we are morally accountable.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

We want time in with our kids not time out.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

God is the designer of the family.

The thing I know for sure is that at the end of my life, what I'm going to remember is the love I felt for my family and my friends, and whatever good I did for other people.

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

The weaknesses, failures, and sins of our family are the places where we learn that we need grace too. It is there, in those dark mercies, that God teaches us to be humbly dependent. It is there that He draws near to us and sweetly reveals His grace. Paul's suffering teaches us to reinterpret our thorn. Instead of seeing it as a curse, we are to see it as the very thing that keeps us pinned close to the Lord.