Quotes about Inheritance

True leadership is measured by what happens after you die.

All this is to say that it's not your fault that you're fucked up. It's your fault if you stay fucked up, but the foundation of your fuckedupedness is something that's been passed down through generations of your family, like a coat of arms or a killer cornbread recipe, or in my case, equating confrontation with heart failure. When

but the foundation of your fuckedupedness is something that's been passed down through generations of your family, like a coat of arms or a killer cornbread recipe, or in my case, equating confrontation with heart failure.

You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into...it is as much as you can expect from a poor man's daughter.

Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.

When my father died, the money he left us would have dried up within a year were it not for my mother... We might very well have ended up on welfare.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

The great news of Christianity is that your biological family of origin does not determine your future.

even the worst and most painful family experiences are part of our total identity. God had a plan in placing us in our particular families and cultures. And the more we know about our families, the more we know about ourselves—and the more freedom we have to make decisions how we want to live. We can say: "This is what I want to keep. This is what I do not want to bring with me to the next generation.

The true sons of Abraham are not identified biologically, but Christologically.

For where grace is, there is a remitting, and where remitting is, there is no punishment. Punishment then being removed, and righteousness succeeding from faith, there is no obstacle to our becoming heirs of the promise.

Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.