34 Quotes About Family

What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and the work flow.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

I believe the family was established long before the church, and my duty is to my family first. I am not to neglect my family.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

The family circle is the supreme conductor of Christianity.

Woman was taken out of man; not out of his head to top him, nor out of his feet to be trampled underfoot; but out of his side to be equal to him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved.

I have no faith in that woman who talks of grace and glory abroad, and uses no soap and water at home. Let the buttons be on the shirts, let the children's socks be mended, let the roast mutton be done to a turn, let the house be as neat as a new pin, and the home be as happy as home can be.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.

In the family, life is brought not only to our doorstep, but into our kitchens, bedrooms, and dens. In the family, life is happening all around us, and it begs to be questioned, evaluated, interpreted, and discussed. There is no more consistent, pregnant, dynamic forum for instruction about life than the family, because that is exactly what God designed the family to be, a learning community.

The highest gift and favor of God is a pious, kind, godly, and domestic wife, with whom thou mayest live peaceably, and to whom thou mayest intrust all thy possessions, yea, thy body and thy life.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

Better one's house be too little one day than too big all the year after.

He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.

He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

I love my country better than my family; but I love humanity better than my country.

I trust there are none here present, who profess to be followers of Christ who do not also practice prayer in their families. We may have no positive commandment for it, but we believe that it is so much in accord with the genius and spirit of the gospel, and that it is so commended by the example of the saints, that the neglect thereof is a strange inconsistency.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

Parental rights are so seriously eroded that families can no longer legally exercise the kind of controls that they ought to be able to exercise. And our families are in serious trouble because of it.

If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.

Jars concealed are half reconciled; but if generally known, it is a double task to stop the breach at home and men's mouths abroad.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

Christian families are under attack in America! The Communists, Masons, Atheists, Humanists, Evolutionists, and other Godless sickos want to destroy the family. Parents beware; the government wants your child!

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.