“When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people's.” PeopleWorldWayTryingMightKidsAbleChurchMy OwnWifeMy WifeRealizationOutcomesChanging The WorldMy Own Life Author:Tullian Tchividjian
“I'm Catholic, and my wife is Catholic. We're very religious. We go to church. We pray every night. We pray at dinner. To me, Catholics regard themselves as very Christian. Some Christians view Catholics as not necessarily Christian.” ChristianNightChurchReligiousViewsChristianityWifePrayingRegardCatholicDinnerMy WifeEvery Night Author:Nicholas Sparks
“I've got three kids. I worry about them but the gospel freed me and freed my wife. We are not trying to make our kids think that we're super spiritual or we've got it all together. They see mom and dad being real people. What they hear dad talking about at home is not different from what they see from dad [at church]. That won't guarantee that they'll avoid the whole PK, MK thing. But we are hopefully not contributing to what normally produces that crisis, which is pretending.” PeopleThinkingTryingDifferentRealWholeHomeKidsTogetherSpiritualThreeChurchTalkingWorryWifeProduceMomDadCrisisMy WifeHopefullyGuaranteesPretendingBeing RealContributingGuarantees ThatMom And DadHopefully Not Author:Tullian Tchividjian
“There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose with few exceptions, got all of that Church. My wife had some relations in the Presbyterian churches, and some in the Episcopal churches; and therefore, wherever it would tell, I was set down as either one or the other, while it was everywhere contended that no Christian ought to vote for me because I belonged to no Church, and was suspected of being a Deist and had talked of fighting a duel.” ChristianFightingChurchWifeAtheismInfluenceOughtVoteRelationPositive AtheismMy WifeCombinationExceptionBakersPresbyteriansDeistVote For Me Author:Abraham Lincoln
“I try to sit down at night before they go to bed and read the Bible with them and do little devotionals and pray with them. I think if you instill it in them when they are young, they'll remember when they grow up. I raise them in church. When the doors are open, I want to be there. My kids love to go. So does my wife.” IfsThinkingWantTryingLittlesDoeKidsRememberYoungNightGrowsChurchGrowing UpWifeDoorsPrayingBedRaisesMy WifeRemember WhenInstillKids Love Author:Andy Pettitte