“I loved my baby dolls when I was a kid. I used to pray with them and say good night to each and every one of them because I didn't want their feelings to get hurt. I remember having that connection with my baby dolls.” WantFeelingsKidsRememberUsedNightHurtBabyPrayingConnectionsDollsGood NightMy Baby Author:Jessica Alba
“I'm a huge advocate of prayer. I've been praying since I was fifteen years old and the doctor told me I was going to be a mother and I was like "what?" I started praying that day that God would help me do what I needed to do to be a good mother and to raise this baby boy that I was going to be blessed with. I haven't stopped praying in years.” YearsHelpingMotherPrayerBoysHavensHugeBabyPrayingNeededDoctorsRaisesBlessedHelp MeFifteenFifteen YearsBeing BlessedGood MotherBaby BoyFifteen Years Old Author:Cathy Hughes
“I dream of a world where people from different backgrounds are praying and working for the flourishment of communities different from them, and I find my sustenance not only in these stories in scripture, but in stories of human existence also - the story of the Bosnian Muslim man who took to a Serbian couple with a new baby a liter of milk every day during that horrible struggle in the former Yugoslavia, because he said even if our tribes, our nations, are at war with each other, there is something deeply human about me wishing that your baby survives and is secure.” PeopleIfsMenWorldHumansSaidDifferentWarStoriesDreamNationsWishCommunityExistenceStruggleBabyPrayingCoupleScriptureBackgroundsHorribleSecureFormerMilkTribesHuman ExistenceSustenanceNew BabyYugoslaviaDifferent BackgroundsBosnians Author:Eboo Patel
“You don't take your newborn baby, put that baby on your lap, and say, "Now listen, kid, you were born in sin, you're not worth anything, and you've got to pray for mercy." That's not going to raise a healthy adult. And that's what we do Sunday after Sunday after Sunday.” KidsBornSinBabyPrayingHealthyAdultsMercyRaisesSundayLapNewbornNewborn BabyPray For Me Author:John Shelby Spong
“Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection. - The Babies speech 1879” MindLongRealDifferencesBabyAmountPrayingSpeechPermanentSufficientTwinsRiotInsurrectionTriplet Book:The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays
“You lay your hand against his skin and just rib his back. Blow into his ear. Press that baby up against your own skin and walk outside with him, where the night air will sourround him, and moonlight fall on his face. Whistle, maybe. Dance. Hum. Pray. (how to calm a crying baby)” HandsFacesNightFallWalksAirCryBabyPrayingSkinsEarsPressesLaysCalmBlowMoonlightRibs Author:Joyce Maynard
“I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color, disease ain't the Negro side a town. I want to stop that moment from coming - and it come in ever white child's life - when they start to think that colored folks ain't as good as whites. ... I pray that wasn't her moment, Pray I still got time.” ThinkingWantChildrenStillsMomentsGirlSidesWhiteColorBabyPrayingDiseaseRacismTownsFolksDirtyLoudThat MomentI PrayBaby Girl Book:The Help Source: The Help