Quotes about Parents
When His parents saw Him, they were astonished. “Child, why have You done this to us?” His mother asked. “Your father and I have been anxiously searching for You.”
— Luke 2:48
Her parents were astounded, but Jesus ordered them not to tell anyone what had happened.
— Luke 8:56
and His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
— John 9:2
Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the works of God would be displayed in him.
— John 9:3
His parents answered, “We know he is our son, and we know he was born blind.
— John 9:20
His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already determined that anyone who confessed Jesus as the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.
— John 9:22
slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.
— Romans 1:30
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
— Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
— Colossians 3:20
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show godliness to their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
— 1 Timothy 5:4
By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were unafraid of the king’s edict.
— Hebrews 11:23
Like all knowledge, knowledge of God is mediated to us through our senses, through speech and symbol, mediated to us by parents and others. If this were not the case, we would be unable to account for the great diversity of representations of God. If knowledge of God, of the moral order, of the beautiful—if these were all innate, they would be universally identical and acknowledged as such.
— Herman Bavinck