#nit

Why, the whole world of knowledge is not worth that child's prayer to 'dear, kind God'! I say nothing of the sufferings of grown-up people, they have eaten the apple, damn them, and the devil take them all! But these little ones! The Brothers Karamazov Ivan to Alyosha, on the suffering and torture of children, " Book V - Pro and Contra, Chapter 4 - Rebellion. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#community #faith #god #nihilism #suffering

God thundered again and again through the prophets that worship in the context of mistreatment of the poor and disadvantaged is an outrage. ↗

— Ronald J. Sider

#christianity #god #outrage #poor #prophets

Sometimes I want to be human for you. ↗

— Sarah Rees Brennan

#humanity #love #nick-ryves #family

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world. ↗

— Jane Austen

#furniture #lady #family

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#christianity #morality #family

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#children #cold #common #composed #family

All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters. ↗

— Bahá'u'lláh

#family

Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy. ↗

— Ruth Hurmence Green

#bible #christianity #family #family-values #family

Fathers, your are the head and strength of the family unit. If you are not in place, there is a weakness in the link. ↗

— Anita R. Sneed-Carter

#father #head #link #strength #unit

...he was part of a family whether he wanted to be or not, the family of humanity, more often than not a frustrating and contentious clan, flawed and often deeply confused, but also periodically noble and admirable, with a common destiny that every member shared. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#family #humanity #family