 Either you can subscribe to the American creed which says that God endowed us with our rights, or you can subscribe to the abortion creed which says that those rights are the consequences of our mother's will. Author: Alan Keyes
Topics: Abortion |
| Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through the darkness? Was not that a more powerful appeal than all words? And, depend upon it, that the soul which cries aloud on God, "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ," though it have "no language but a cry," will never call in vain. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Prayer, Mercy |
| I know what Eternity is, though I cannot define the word to satisfy a metaphysician. The little child taught by some grandmother Lois, in a cottage, knows what she means when she tells him "you will live forever," though both scholar and teacher would be puzzled to put it into other words. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Eternity |
The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.
- William Townsend Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Evangelism, The Bible |
| He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy, He the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute." Author: Augustine
Topics: Christmas, Christ |
| Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children. Author: Billy Graham
Topics: Character, Mothers |
| There is more power in a mother's hand than in a king's scepter. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Power, Mothers |
| I don't believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Mothers, Godliness |
| There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. Author: Billy Sunday
Topics: Mothers |
| If you do get lost, some of you will have to wade through your mother's tears and leap over your father's prayers and your minister's entreaties. You will have to force a passage through the warnings of godly people and the examples of pious relatives. Why this effort to destroy your own souls? Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Rebellion |
| Infinite, and an infant. Eternal, and yet born of a woman. Almighty, and yet hanging on a woman's breast. Supporting a universe, and yet needing to be carried in a mother's arms. King of angels, and yet the reputed son of Joseph. Heir of all things, and yet the carpenter's despised son. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Jesus, Christmas |
| No man in the world should be so happy as a man of God. It is one continual source of gladness. He can look up and say, "God is my Father, Christ is my Saviour, and the Church is my mother." Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Happiness |
| The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Mothers, Prayer |
| Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's. Author: Desiderius Erasmus
Topics: Good and Evil, Discontentment, Envy |
| A lot of times in life we're all looking for that second chance. The kids I met tonight--who I'm representing have not even had their first chance. Some of these kids--I don't know how in the world they can do it without a mother or a father. What would I have done without my mother? Author: Duane Chapman
Topics: Life, Parents |
| Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We can't be sinning in so many different ways if we are being quiet before God. Silence nourishes patience, charity, discretion. Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Topics: Sin, Prayer |
| I would have every minister of the Gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother. Author: Francois Fenelon
Topics: Preaching, The Gospel |
| Believing in him is not the same as believing things about him such as that he was born of a virgin and raised Lazarus from the dead. Instead, it is a matter of giving our hearts to him, of come hell or high water putting our money on him, the way a child believes in a mother or a father, the way a mother or a father believes in a child. Author: Frederick Buechner
Topics: Believing |
| The truest definition of evil is that which represents it as something contrary to nature. Evil is evil because it is unnatural. A vine which should bear olive-berries - an eye to which blue seems yellow, would be diseased. An unnatural mother, an unnatural son, an unnatural act, are the strongest terms of condemnation. Author: Frederick W. Robertson
Topics: Good and Evil, Nature |
| Gratitude is the mother of all the virtues. Author: G.K. Chesterton
Topics: Virtue |
| A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. Author: G.K. Chesterton
Topics: Apathy, War, Patriotism |
| 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.' Author: G.K. Chesterton
Topics: Good and Evil, Patriotism |
| The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. Author: G.K. Chesterton
Topics: Good and Evil |
| Night is the mother of counsels. Author: George Herbert
Topics: Life |
| My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. Author: George Washington
Topics: Mothers |
| The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character. That which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife. Author: Hannah More
Topics: Education |
| Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Topics: Mothers, Philosophy |
| God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: God, Mothers, Forgiveness |
| The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Mothers |
| The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Mothers |
| What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Mothers |
| The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Fathers, Mothers, Parents |
| The mother's heart is the child's classroom. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Mothers, Children |
| Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. Author: Hosea Ballou
Topics: Mothers, Education |
| Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear... Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told. Author: J.C. Ryle
Source: The Duties of Parents.
Topics: Parents, Examples |
| My mother said, 'Son, it's the I CAN that makes a great man.' Author: Jack Hyles
Topics: Perseverance |
| Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous. Author: Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Habits, Beauty |
| Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself. Author: Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Marriage |
| A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; holy prayers and spiritual comfort; and a pleasure of spirit infinitely greater than the sottish pleasure of unchastity. Author: Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Holiness, Wisdom, Comfort |
| Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols. Author: John Calvin
Topics: Rebellion, Idolatry |
| Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings. Author: John Chrysostom
Topics: Prayer |
| Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue. Author: John Chrysostom
Topics: Humility |
| We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seekers of the best, We come back laden from our quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read. Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
Topics: Scripture, Truth, Beauty |
| God is nearer to us than any man at every time. He is nearer to me than my raiment, nearer than the air or light, nearer than my wife, father, mother, daughter, son, or friend. I live in Him, soul and body. I breathe in Him, think in Him, feel, consider, intend, speak, undertake, work in Him. Author: John of Kronstadt
Topics: God |
| After one is right with God and pleases God, the next most important thing in all the world is to be right with one's own father and mother. Author: John R. Rice
Topics: Parents |
| The particularity of each New Testament author was in no way smothered by the unique process of inspiration. On the contrary, the Holy Spirit first prepared, and then used, their individuality of upbringing, experience, temperament and personality, in order to convey through each some distinctive and appropriate truth. Author: John Stott
Topics: The Bible, Holy Spirit |
| I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England. Author: John Wesley
Topics: Christianity, Theology |
| When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called her Eva, that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother, mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman. Author: Martin Luther
Topics: Marriage, Mothers, Sanctification |
| The revived begin to get a concern for the members of their own family - husband, wife, father, mother, children, brother, sister - who do not know that they are outside. They tell them about it; they feel they must. There is a constraint that is driving them. They talk about it to people, to friends and to everybody, and they begin to pray for them. Prayer is always a great feature of every revival, great prayer meetings, intercession hour after hour. They pray for these people by name and they plead, and they will not let God go, as it were. Author: Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Topics: Witnessing |
| Christ died He left a will in which He gave His soul to His Father, His body to Joseph of Arimathea, His clothes to the soldiers, and His mother to John. But to His disciples, who had left all to follow Him, He left not silver or gold, but something far better - His PEACE! Author: Matthew Henry
Topics: Peace |
| No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers in tenderest affections are but beams and trains to lead us upwards to the infinite mercy of God in Christ. Author: Richard Sibbes
Topics: Sin, Mercy |
| Just as the nine months you spent in your mother's womb were not an end in themselves but preparation for life, so this life is preparation for the next. Author: Rick Warren
Topics: Life, Eternity |
| A little child often runs to its mother and exclaims: 'Mother! Mother!' Very often the child does not want anything in particular, he only wants to be near his mother, to sit upon her lap, or to follow her about the house, for the sheer pleasure of being near her, talking to her, hearing her dear voice. Then the child is happy. His happiness does not consist in asking and receiving all kinds of things from his mother. If that were what he wanted, he would be impatient and obstinate and therefore unhappy. No, his happiness lies in feeling his mother's love and care, and in knowing the joy of her mother love." "It is just the same with the true children of God; they do not trouble themselves so much about spiritual blessings. They only want to sit at the Lord's feet, to be in living touch with Him, and when they do that they are supremely content. Author: Sadhu Sundar Singh
Topics: Contentment |
| In a Tibetan village I noticed a crowd of people standing under a burning tree and looking up into the branches. I came near and discovered in the branches a bird which was anxiously flying round a nest full of young ones. The mother bird wanted to save her little ones, but she could not. When the fire reached the nest the people waited breathlessly to see what she would do. No one could climb the tree, no one could help her. Now she could easily have saved her own life by flight, but instead of fleeing she sat down on the nest, covering the little ones carefully with her wings. The fire seized her and burnt her to ashes. She showed her love to her little ones by giving her life for them. If then, this little insignificant creature had such love, how much more must our Heavenly Father love His children, the Creator love His creatures! Author: Sadhu Sundar Singh
Topics: Sacrifice |
| Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases. Author: Thomas Brooks
Topics: Reasoning, Envy |
| When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger. Author: Thomas Brooks
Topics: Temptation, Overcoming |
| For a wife take the daughter of a good mother. Author: Thomas Fuller
Topics: Marriage, Mothers |
| I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue. Author: William Tyndale
Topics: Scripture, Truth |
