Inspirational Quotes on Family

“The family circle is the supreme conductor of Christianity.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Home: The place in which you are treated the best and grumble the most.”

“For few are the children who turn out to be equals of their fathers, and the greater number are worse; few are better than their father is.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“When a heart hears - and believes, or half believes - that it is not the child of God by origin, from the first of its being, but may possibly be adopted into His family, its love sinks at once in a cold faint: where is its own father, and who is this that would adopt it?”

“It is through the institution of families that children are brought up in an orderly manner; and that the knowledge of God and of His laws is handed down from generation to generation.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“King: ...But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son, — Hamlet: [Aside.] A little more than kin, but less than kind.”

“The goal of priestly ministry is to do good to the souls of men.”

“Old Barley might be as old as thee hills, and might swear like a whole field of troopers, but there were redeeming youth and trust and hope enough in Chinks's Basin to fill it to overflowing.”

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