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We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.
— Gordon Hinckley
My lifestyle got so disruptive to my family that my parents had no choice but to say, "You can't live here any longer if you're going to live this way." So, I was thrilled about it - thrilled!
— Tullian Tchividjian
Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life.
— Aristotle
Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows.
— Mark Batterson
In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children.
— Martin Luther
Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe.
— Martin Luther
Esteem your friends, revere your teachers, honor your parents, regard your supporters.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
children tend to hold a concept of God even if their parents are atheists.
— Nancy Pearcey
and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
— Genesis 28:7
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
— Exodus 20:12
Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
— Leviticus 19:3
Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
— Deuteronomy 5:16