Inspirational Quotes on Family

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Charity begins at home, but should not end there.”

“Perhaps the most distinctive aspect of our age is the subsiding of all other concerns to the predominance of politics. And thus, we have succumbed to a Lyndon Johnson-like dependence upon the power of the state. The tragic result has been that all of life has been politicized, and if the new social engineers have their way, politics will increase in power - especially in its power to penetrate into our everyday lives and rule our destinies. For in fact politics has become, for many of the political elite, a kind of state religion.”

“It’s not about you. The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your peace of mind, or even your happiness. It's far greater than your family, your career, or even your wildest dreams and ambitions. If you want to know why you were placed on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Je n'ai gardé que d'excellents souvenirs de la maison paternelle; ce sont pour l'homme les plus précieux de tous, pourvu que l'amour et la concorde règnent un tant soit peu dans la famille. On peut même conserver un souvenir ému de la pire des familles, si l'on a une âme capable d'émotion.”