The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being’s mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it’s too hard.
Parents Quotes
Unblessed is the son who does not honor his parents; but if reverent and obedient to them, he will receive the same from his own children.
Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.
The great high of winning Wimbledon lasts for about a week. You go down in the record books, but you don’t have anything tangible to hold on to. But having a baby – there just isn’t any comparison.
Leontine. An only son, sir, might expect more indulgence. Croaker. An only father, sir, might expect more obedience.
A false love blinds parents so that they regard the body of their child more than his soul. Hence the wise man says, “He that spareth his rod hateth his son; but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes”. (Prov. XIII,24)
What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!
How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!
My parents died when I was so young, my mother when I was eight, my father when I was ten, that I know little of them but from hearsay. . . He was forty when he married my mother, who was more than twenty years younger. She was a very beautiful woman and he was […]
