Quotes about Foundation

The church is, as Paul declares, founded on the doctrine of Apostles and Prophets [Eph 2:2]; but these men [of the Roman Catholic Church] speak as if they imagined that the mother owed her birth to the daughter.

And this is the main difference between the gospel and philosophy: for though the philosophers speak excellently and with great judgment on  the subject of morals, yet whatever excellency shines forth in their precepts, it is, as it were, a beautiful superstructure without a foundation; for by omitting principles, they offer a mutilated doctrine, like a body without a head.

And we must so discuss them as to bear in mind that this is the main hinge on which religion turns, so that we devote the greater attention and care to it. For unless you first of all grasp what your relationship to God is, and the nature of his judgment concerning you, you have neither a foundation on which to establish your salvation nor one on which to build piety toward God. But the need to know this will better appear from the knowledge itself.

Purity of morals is the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Happy and successful homes cannot be built on immorality.

Anyone can build a house: we need the Lord for the creation of a home.

There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.

A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.

The foundations of civilization are no stronger and no more enduring than the corporate integrity of the homes on which they rest. If the home deteriorates, civilization will crumble and fall.

I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters - a family, a home and a good name.