Quotes Tagged "family"

The whole world was out there, but I was in my mother's arms, and I didn't know it yet.

Our parents are the worst for us, the most difficult to endure, precisely because they have the most intentions towards us. Hopes, dreams, needs for relationship. Acknowledgement.

When it comes right down to it, the only way to face a crises that makes any sense at all - is together. And the only direction to face- is up.

When talk about HOPE...I want to be a beacon of hope to my family, but i really need to save just a little for myself, to do so, i need to triple up my effort.. (Ejump, 2017)

Adoption: Every Child a Wanted Child... There are 143 million orphans in the world waiting for someone to want them. Could one of them be waiting for you?

Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

I love you,” was his reply. “I make myself keep on loving you, despite what you do. I've got to love you. We all have to love you, and believe in you, and think you are looking out for our best interests. But look at us, Momma, and really see us.

As goes the family, so goes the faith; as goes the faith, so goes the culture.

And here she was. Lying on the floor of a dusty, empty, locked room thinking how grateful she felt. She smiled, though it hurt tremendously to do so, thinking how blessed she had been to have spent twelve years with the most precious gifts from God. She felt honored that they called her mother. She knew she had done the best she could teaching them about life and love, faith and family. Margo lay slowly dying from the wounds inflicted by a monster, but she was at peace. Because though the devil meant it for evil, God turned it to good.

I ate some emotional soup in my childhood and have spent a lifetime trying to digest it.

Sometimes we can focus so much on nothing that we make it a big something of nothing

Sometimes we place faith in the wrong people for the right reasons. We're too blind to their faults, and they're too blind to appreciate us. —Brighton Hayes

Look to the religion and NOT to the people!

As mortals called on God, on angels and saints, as they chanted while telling their rosary, Raphael was pronouncing the only names that were sacred to him and would not burn his tongue to utter. Raphael was calling on his family.

This is how the enemy divides us as husband and wife. He gets you looking at your needs, your issues, and your problems.

Unless you have a plan- a list of your priorities to do- you’re planning to fail.

You may be outnumbered by your problems and facing hopeless circumstances, but God has a divine plan to bring you into restoration - and you don’t have to suffer any casualties.

If you and your family are not where you think you should be, you need to be open for God’s Spirit to point out the things that may be hindering your ability to advance.

As long as we blame others for our issues and don’t take personal responsibility, we remove ourselves from God’s provision and His correction, forgiveness, and restoration.