Quotes about Mothers
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men — from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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
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
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
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
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
the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with their children.
- Hosea 10:14
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
older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
- 1 Timothy 5:2
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
We are inconsistent, said Mother Teresa, to care about violence, and to care about hungry children in places like India and Africa, and yet not care about the millions who are killed by the deliberate choice of their own mothers.
- Philip Yancey