Quotes about Family

All children are rebellious. They are all self-centered and think the world revolves around them. That is why they need parents to raise them. Almost every child will, at times, bring reproach on his family, but he is still a part of the family.

In Matthew 13:55 and 56, we read that after Mary gave birth to Jesus (He was Mary's firstborn), she gave birth to four more boys and to at least two girls. That means Jesus was the eldest of at least six siblings. Matthew 13:55 says about Jesus, "Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses [Joseph], and Simon, and Jude?

It's easy enough to notice how often dysfunctional families and societies finally collapse into an orgy of mutual blaming. That's satanic work.

In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

A parent's love is whole no matter how many times divided.

I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you've been, it is because my DNA will be found at the scene.

As parents, we guide by our unspoken example. It is only when we're talking to them that our kids aren't listening.

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate world of your own.