33. Family and Home

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Exodus 20:12

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. > Theodore M. Hesburgh.

Home is where the heart is. > Pliny the Elder.

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

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners. > Charles H. Parkhurst.

Everyone believes divorce breaks up families. This is not so. The broken family is not the result of the divorce; divorce is the result of a broken family. > Paul W. Alexander.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels. > David Fyfe.

Domestic happiness depends on the ability to overlook. > Roy L. Smith.

To be happy at home is the end of all labour. > Samuel Johnson.

Any woodsman call tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly expect to find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family. > Thomas Jefferson.

A happy family is been an earlier heaven. > John Bowring.

Heaven will be the perfection we have always longed for. All the things that made earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven. There will be no night, no death, no disease, no sorrow, no tears, no ignorance, no disappointment, no war. It will be filled with health, vigour, virility, knowledge, happiness, worship, love, and perfection. > Billy Graham.

See also Proverbs 1:7-8; Acts 16:31-34.