“A Christian home! What a power it is to the child when he is far away in the cold, tempting world, and voices of sin are filling his ears, and his feet stand on slippery places.” WorldChildrenHomeChristianVoiceSinFeetColdEarsFar AwayFillingTemptingSlipperyChristian Home Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge
“The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to concupiscence, cleanses the soul from sin, quiets the anger of God, enlightens the understanding to know God, inflames the will and the affections with the love of God, fills the memory with spiritual sweetness, confirms the entire man in good, frees us from eternal death, multiplies the merits of a good life, leads us to our everlasting home, and re-animates the body to eternal life” KnowsMenSoulHomeBodySpiritualUnderstandingMemoriesSinLordEternalAffectionVicesFlightGod LoveMeritDemonGood LifeSacramentsSweetnessEverlastingIncentivesKnowing GodEnlighteningEternal Life Author:Thomas Aquinas
“A lost sheep is, for all practical purposes a dead sheep. It is the admission that we are dead in our sins---that we have no power of ourselves either to save ourselves or to convince anyone else that we are worth saving. It is the recognition that our whole life is out of our hands and that if we ever live again, our life will be entirely the gift of some gracious shepherd. God finds us the desert of death (not in the garden of improvement) and in the power of Jesus' resurrection, he puts us on his shoulders rejoicing and brings us home.” IfsWholeHomeHandsLife IsPurposeJesusLostSinOur LivesGardenWhole LifeImprovementPracticalsShouldersSavingRecognitionDesertConvinceRejoiceResurrectionSheepGraciousShepherdsAdmissionJesus Resurrection Author:Robert Farrar Capon
“The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.” WorldHomeChurchSinBurdenImaginarySuperstitionsCeremonyScarecrow Book:Areopagitica and Other Prose Works Source: Areopagitica and Other Prose Works
“Dear friends, have you begun to sing the "new song? " Loved ones are singing it in the heavenly home, and we may sing it here; and by and by we shall join them, gaze with them on the risen, glorified Lord, and our voices will mingle in the "new song" "unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever".” MayHomeSongVoiceSinLordBloodSingingGloryDearHeavenlyLoved OnesDominionRisenDear FriendNew SongsHeavenly Home Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge
“It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.” ChildrenImportantSometimesHomeEyeSinImportant ThingsRemedy Book:Mrs. Miniver Source: Mrs. Miniver
“Some people say that suicide is a sin, but I have never believed that. I say it's God's way of calling certain folks home early. It's much nicer than an awful accident, where the rest of us are left wondering if the person really wanted to go.” PeopleIfsWayPersonsHomeWantedCertainLeftSinWonderCallingSuicideFolksAccidentsAwfulFolks Home Book:The Cape Ann: A Novel Source: The Cape Ann: A Novel
“In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.” HomeAmericaIndividualSinRaceFamilyHorrorDestructionSlaveryInstinctShelterSavagesRelentlessCardinalsRace In America Author:Fannie Barrier Williams