“I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones, who are generally no better for popular instruction, and entrust it to the undivided powers of Nature herself, to the light that God kindles and ever keeps alive in the hearts of fathers and mothers, to the interest of parents who desire that their children should grow up in favour with God and man.” MenShouldWellsHeartChildrenHandsLightSchoolMotherDesireOrderFatherGrowsParentInterestGrowing UpTeacherAliveWeakInstructionFavourKindlesDecrepitPower Of NatureStammering Author:Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
“Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.” ThinkingLooksChildrenYoungFatherPresidentPowerfulInfluenceFiguresWeakBillsClintonAbsenceBarackMost PowerfulAbsentJohnsonYoung ChildrenFather Figure Author:Jeff Greenfield
“Faith exists when absolute confidence in that which we cannot see combines with action that is in absolute conformity to the will of our Heavenly Father. Without all three--first, absolute confidence; second, action; and third, absolute conformity--without these three all we have is a counterfeit, a weak and watered-down faith.” FirstsActionThreeFatherWeakThirdsAbsolutesHeavenlyConformityHeavenly FatherCounterfeit Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin
“Philip Galanes has fashioned a novel both bleak and funny about a young man's struggle to sort out his troubled love: the too-strong love for his mother, the too-weak love for his suicidal father, and the all-consuming love of anonymous sexual encounters. Pointed and acute, this story tells of the narrator's many betrayals of others and their many betrayals of him. It exists in an uncomfortable moral space where the humor of terrible things sometimes outweighs, but never obscures, their poignancy.” MenSometimesStoriesYoungMotherFatherStrongSpaceMoralNovelStruggleTerribleWeakBetrayalUncomfortableYoung ManEncountersSuicidalTerrible ThingsConsumingBleakPhilipNarratorsStrong LovePoignancyConsuming LoveWeak Love Author:Andrew Solomon