Quotes about Mothers
God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.
— John Calvin
You shall do likewise with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but on the eighth day you are to give them to Me.
— Exodus 22:30
I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.
— Jeremiah 15:8
If you took the love of all the best mothers and fathers who have lived in the course of human history, all their goodness, kindness, patience, fidelity, wisdom, tenderness, strength, and love and united all those qualities in a single person, that person's love would only be a faint shadow of the furious love and mercy in the heart of God the Father addressed to you and me at this moment.
— Brennan Manning
They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.
— Lamentations 2:12
Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.”
— Isaiah 49:23
older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
— 1 Timothy 5:2
These caves are the original men's rite sanctuaries where the boys became no longer their mothers' sons but their fathers' sons.
— Joseph Campbell
Christ loves mothers and is drawn to their tears, words, and prayers. After all, He lived in the house, ate her cooking, saw her clean His clothes and His room, and knew she was blessed above all women.
— Perry Stone
For this is what the LORD says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and the mothers who bore them, and the fathers who fathered them in this land:
— Jeremiah 16:3
How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.
— Luke 21:23
Kirgizskaia Pravda of 17 January 1966 quoted an underground Christian leaflet to mothers: 'Let us join our efforts and prayers to dedicate to God the lives of our children from the time they are in the cradle! Let us save our children from the influence of the world.
— Richard Wurmbrand