#family

Let me implore the reader to try to believe, if only for a moment, that God, who made these deserving people, may really be right when He thinks that their modest prosperity and the happiness of their children are not enough to make them blessed: that all this must fall from them in the end, and if they have not learned to know Him they will be wretched. And therefore He troubles them, warning them in advance of an insufficiency that one day they will have to discover. The life to themselves and their families stands between them and the recognition of their need; He makes that life less sweet to them. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him, and come to Him because there is 'nothing better' now to be had. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#suffering #family

There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. ↗

— Jill Churchill

#love #perfect #whanau #family

You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#lack-of-interest #family

Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere ↗

— Peter Abrahams

#love #mothers #family

If we will build righteous traditions in our families, the light of the gospel can grow ever brighter in the lives of our children from generation to generation. We can look forward to that glorious day when we will all be united together as eternal family units to reap the everlasting joy promised by our Eternal Father for His righteous children. ↗

— L. Tom Perry

#lds #family

Remember as you go about your day that you may be the only Jesus some of your friends, neighbors, and family will ever see. ↗

— Wanda E. Brunstetter

#inspirational #family

HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#music #patrick-ness #family

[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68) ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#family #humanity #life #living #family

A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#family

Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not. ↗

— Patricia C. Wrede

#help #humor #sacrifices #family