#ily

It was the history of the family, written by Melquíades, down to the most trivial details, one hundred yea rs ahead of time. He had written it in Sanskrit, which was his mother tongue, and he had encoded the even lines in the private cipher o f the Emperor Augustus and the odd ones in a La cedemonian military code. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#family

An overnight success is usally twenty years in the making! ↗

— T.I. Wade

#family

A Christian understanding of the world sees a child's character not as genetically determined but as shaped to a significant degree by parental discipleship and discipline. ↗

— Russell Moore

#discipline #parenting #family

Too often, our concept of pastors and church leaders reinforces rather than obliterates the sad state of family life in our current context. ↗

— Russell Moore

#family #pastors #family

Christmas is the season when most folks kill themselves/Christmas is the reason for all these stupid bells ↗

— the Handsome Family

#bah-humbug #christmas #country #twang #family

la culpa era de su ceguera de progenitor, la misma, (...) que nos impide ver que nuestros hijos, al fin y al cabo, son tan buenos o tan malos como los demás ↗

— José Saramago

#familia #family #hijos #padres #family

Toate familiile fericite se aseamănă între ele. Fiecare familie nefericită este nefericită în felul ei. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#happiness-life #life #family

Let me tell you something," Marc said. "I'm done with you. I've lost everything because of you." He got to his feet and waved his arms around in the air. "I have no family, no friends-" "You have us," Sera said in a quiet voice. "-no life." Marc looked at Sera and shook his head. "I don't want you. I want my old life back. ↗

— J Meyers

#family

There were still few rules at Down House, and Charles was not very good at enforcing the ones he and Emma did make. This was well known among his children. In 1855, when Lenny was about five, Charles walked in to find his son jumping up and down and tumbling all over a new sofa. 'Oh Lenny, Lenny,' Charles said. 'You know it is against all rules.' 'Then,' Lenny said to his papa, 'I think you'd better go out of the room.' And so Charles did. ↗

— Heiligman Deborah

#children #family-rules #humor #family

It is not possible to understand the NT concept of the church if we overlook the numerous metaphors used to portray it. The church is Christ's body, a temple, a family, a royal priesthood, twelve tribes, the chosen race, Abraham's children, the new creation, the bride of Christ, and so on. Bible readers should be careful not to construct their theology of the church on a single metaphor. ↗

— David Ewert

#church #ecclesiology #family