Marriage, parenting, and raising children; the home and household; husbands, wives, sons and daughters. Human families only — not God as Father, and not the church as a family.
- Devotion Through Domestic Service John Calvin
If a woman were to spend all day long in church, praying and chanting, her style of life would not be as agreeable to God as if she were a wife who patiently performed …
- Training our Sons Joel Beeke
Our sons need our training not to respond to unkindness with unkindness, but rather to remember Christ, who was never combative or defensive, but ever loving, kind, and …
- Steve Jobs on Abortion Steve Jobs
I wanted to meet my biological mother mostly to see if she was okay and to thank her, because I’m glad I didn’t end up as an abortion.
- Chesterton on Motherhood G.K. Chesterton
How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be …
- Bad Parents Make Bad Children Thomas Manton
I cannot suppose thee to be such a stranger as to be ignorant of the general complaint concerning the decay of the power of godliness, and more especially of the great …
- The Second Most Important Book for Children Joel Beeke
Besides the Bible, your lives are the most important book your children will ever read. In the book of your life, they will see how important your views on God are, …
- Principle Duty of Husband and Wife Richard Baxter
A principal duty between husband and wife is with special care and skill and diligence to help each other in the knowledge and worship and obedience of God in order to …
- Building Our Kingdom Paul David Tripp
It is when we love God more than we love ourselves and when we quit building our own little kingdom and start seeking his that we will love our spouse.
- Marriage and the Creator Paul David Tripp
No marriage will be unaffected when the people in the marriage are seeking to get from the creation what they were only ever meant to get from the Creator.
- A Holy Family Richard Baxter
A holy, well-governed family is the preparative to a holy and well-governed church.
If masters of families did their part, and sent such polished materials to the …
- Family Reformation Richard Baxter
Family reformation is the easiest in the most likely way to a common reformation; at least to send many souls to heaven, and train up multitudes for God, if it reached …
- Divine Dating Chad Van Dixhoorn
And George Walker, yet another member of the [Westminster] assembly who wrote on the topic, had hard words for weak men who told ladies to marry them because of ‘pretense …
- The Real Soul-Mate J.R.R. Tolkien
When the glamour wears off, or merely works a bit thin, [husbands] think they have made a mistake, and that the real soul-mate is still to find. The real soul-mate too …
- C. S. Lewis on Media and Sexuality C. S. Lewis
It is all a fake, of course; the figures in the popular art are falsely drawn; the real women in bathing suits or tights are actually pinched in and propped up to make …
- The Huge Task of Mothering G. K. Chesterton
How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? … I will pity Mrs. …
- The Purpose of 1 Corinthians 13 Phil Ryken
Instead of preparing people for marriage, then, the apostle [in 1 Coronthians 13] was trying desperately to show a church full of self-centered Christians that there is a …
- Al Mohler on the Church and Marriage Al Mohler
The U.S. Supreme Court may well decide the future of marriage as a legal institution, but the church must hold to marriage as far more, but not less than, a legal …
- Plutarch on Pursuit of Money and Children Plutarch
Good people, what are you after? Why in such deadly earnest about making money, while troubling so little about the sons to whom you are to leave it?’
- Lacking Fellowship? Rosaria Butterfield
At least as it regard the handful of families that showed immediate excitement and then after a month changed heart, this is what ’lacking fellowship’; means. It means …
- Employment Outside the Home Wendell Berry
I do not belive that ’employment outside the home’ is as valuable or important or satisfying as employment at home, for either men or women.
- Institutions Controlling our Chidren's Lives John Taylor Gatto
Two institutions currently control our children’s lives: television and schooling, in that order.