Quotes about Family

Friends are the family we can choose.

Who can ever measure the benefit of a mother's inspiration?

Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the center, but not the boundary, of the affections.

And Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath gave birth to Reuel,

He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realized that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.

King Solomon wrote, "Behold, children are a gift of the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one's youth" (Psalm 127:3—4, emphasis added).

In family devotions it is best that the various members thereof undertake the consecutive reading in turn. When this is done it will soon become apparent that it is not easy to read the Bible aloud for others. The more artless, the more objective, the more humble one's attitude toward the material is, the better will the reading accord with the subject.

It is only the strong Christian family unit that can survive the coming world holocaust.

The most precious inheritance parents can leave their children is their own happiness. Parents' happiness is the most valuable gift they can give their children

So Joab went and told the king, and David summoned Absalom, who came to him and bowed facedown before him. Then the king kissed Absalom.

When he was set outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.

Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her as my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!”