Quotes about Lineage

People always ask me: 'Do you have black in you? Do you have Spanish in you?'

He was seeing a long line of men stretched through the centuries from Plato onward, whose heir and final product was an incompetent little professor with the appearance of a gigolo and the soul of a thug.

He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

some of our descendents

How awesome of God to purpose that Christ's royal lineage would come through His adoptive father. We shouldn't be surprised at the profound significance with which God views adoption. Ephesians 1:4—6 tells us something profound about God's view of adoption. It identifies us as the adopted children of God. In a peculiar kind of way, God the Father allowed His Son to be "adopted" into a family on earth so that we could be adopted into His family in heaven.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Blue Ivy can say she knows who her great-great-great-great-grandfather is. How many people can say that?

The family tree of earthly ancestors was really not important; what was important was the family tree of the children of God He planted on Calvary.

how was a man to be explained unless you at least knew somebody who knew his father and mother?

My mother was related to four of Jamaica's oldest families, and to say merely that she was out of the top drawer would not convey the quality of her breeding.

No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.

As a preacher myself, let me be blunt here. Preaching itself can easily become just a subtle form of entertainment. When I stand at the Judgment Seat of Christ, he is not going to ask me if I was a clever orator. He is not going to ask me how many books I wrote. He is only going to ask whether I continued in the line of men and women, starting way back in the time of Adam's grandchildren, who led others to call upon God.