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We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the ris- ing generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of par- ents to children than by those of children to parents. Who has not been the embarrassed guest at family meals where the father or mother treated their grown-up offspring with an incivility which, offered to any other young people, would simply have termi- nated the acquaintance? Dogmatic assertions on mat- ters which the children understand and their elders don't, ruthless interruptions, flat contradictions, ridicule of things the young take seriously some- times of their religion insulting references to their friends, all provide an easy answer to the question "Why are they always out? Why do they like every house better than their home?" Who does not prefer civility to barbarism? ↗


— C.S. Lewis


#civility #generation #love #parenting #family

Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around. ↗


— Jerry L. Lewis


#growth #inspirational #love #motivation #relationships

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters. ↗


— Jane Austen


#classics #marriage #men #possessiveness #single-men

It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like a party marooned by a shipwreck. That's what a family is. Also the storm at sea, the ship, and the unknown shore. And the hats and the whiskey stills that you make out of bamboo and coconuts. And the fire that you light to keep away the beasts. ↗


— Michael Chabon


#family #thanksgiving #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

[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

I've liked you better when Katsa's around," Giddon said. "She's so rotton to me that you seem positively pleasant in contrast ↗


— Kristin Cashore


#giddon #katsa #kristin-cashore #po #positivity

God Hates divorce." "He hates cruelty even more." Caring For Eleanor ↗


— Sonia Rumzi


#eleanor #god #love #loving #novel

Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose? ↗


— John Wesley


#christianity #clothing #compassion #evangelism #faithfulness

He likes driving very fast on the wrong side of the road," said Sarah. "Which I can completely understand. ↗


— Hilary McKay


#fast #life #nonconformity #family






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