Quotes about Family

Isaac answered Esau: "Look, I have made him a master over you… . What then can I do for you, my son?" Genesis 27:37

If God chooses for you never to have physical children, He's calling you to a far bigger family! God purposely placed the dream of fruitful lives in our hearts. Oh, how I love the paradoxical ways our glorious heavenly Father works. Only He can bring gain from loss. Only He can make us more fruitful in barrenness!

He replied to them, "My mother and My brothers are those who hear and do the word of God. "Luke 8:21

There is a generation that curses its father and does not bless its mother. Proverbs 30:11

It's because a country-western song can start you out at a family picnic eating buttermilk-fried chicken and watermelon on your great-grandmother's quilt, with butterflies flitting about, and before it ends, your daddy's gone to prison and your momma's run off with the preacher and your little brother's blowing butterflies to dust with a BB gun.

Guys, don't follow Elkanah's example. Get involved at home. If God has given you a wife, put the effort into understanding her. Is it an impossible task? Most assuredly. But sometimes the challenging jobs are the most rewarding. Wives need men who engage and participate, not abdicate as parent and spouse. For too many husbands the lights are on, but nobody is home.

Look at how great a love the Father has given us, that we should be called God's children. And we are! 1 John 3:1

How awesome of God to purpose that Christ's royal lineage would come through His adoptive father. We shouldn't be surprised at the profound significance with which God views adoption. Ephesians 1:4—6 tells us something profound about God's view of adoption. It identifies us as the adopted children of God. In a peculiar kind of way, God the Father allowed His Son to be "adopted" into a family on earth so that we could be adopted into His family in heaven.

What could make a man stands taller than a newborn son?

Enoch walked with God 300 years and fathered sons and daughters… . Enoch walked with God. Genesis 5:22, 24

Please forgive your brothers' transgression and their sin—the wrong they caused you. Genesis 50:17

When there are good postings available, the people who choose who is to come to that particular position, they will always have, at the back of their minds, a fear that, 'If I take a woman, she might prioritize her family over the job and, therefore, not be available at times when her presence is required.'