“I lost my mother two years ago to cancer. But the greatest gift she gave to me was showing me how to be a wonderful and loving mom to my two sons, even now that they are grown men.” MenYearsTwoMotherLostWonderfulSonMomYears AgoCancerTwo YearsGreatest GiftsGrown ManTwo Years Ago Author:Carla Hall
“Once women invented farming, and began to keep and breed animals, they discovered the crucial function of the rooster and the henhouse. Fathers suddenly gained a function, and could do what only women had been able to do for all those millions of years--point at a child and say, "That is my son," "That is my daughter." Patriarchy quickly followed, beginning about five thousand years ago; a very short time in the development of our species, but covering all of recorded history.” YearsChildrenAbleFatherAnimalMillionsFiveSonDevelopmentThousandDaughterYears AgoFunctionSpeciesMy DaughterMy SonCrucialThousand YearsPatriarchyFarmingCoveringShort TimeRoosters Author:Frank Pittman
“Right now if this preacher died he would go to heaven. Not because I spent years in the jungles and the Andes Mountains of Peru. Not because of piety, devotion or bible study. Not because of denominational affiliation, baptism, or participation in the Lord’s supper. If I died right now, I would go to heaven because two thousand years ago the Son of God shed His blood for this wretched man. And that is my hope.” IfsMenYearsTwoHeavenLordStudyBloodSonRight NowThousandMountainYears AgoDiedDevotionPreacherShedThousand YearsParticipationJungleWretchedPietyBaptismBible StudySupperPeruAffiliationLord's Supper Author:Paul Washer
“The truth is that I used to read J.J. bedtime stories. He came up to me at the FOX commissary about four years ago and he said, "Do you remember what you gave me for my Barmitzvah?" I said no. He said, "You gave me the annotated Sherlock Holmes and my son is reading it now." It was the gift that kept on giving.” GivingYearsSaidStoriesRememberUsedReadingFourSonTruth IsYears AgoMy SonFour YearsFoxesHolmesBedtimeBedtime Stories Author:Nicholas Meyer
“The price of Christmas toys is outrageous - a hundred dollars, two hundred dollars for video games for the youngsters. I remember a Christmas years ago when my son was a kid. I bought him a tank. It was about a hundred dollars, a lot of money in those days. It was the kind of tank you could actually get inside and ride in. He played in the box it came in. It taught me a very valuable lesson. Next year he got a box. And I got a hundred dollars' worth of scotch.” YearsKindTwoKidsRememberNextGamesTaughtSonLessonsHundredYears AgoDollarsBoxesValuableVideoMy SonToysLots Of MoneyTanksNext YearOutrageousYoungstersScotchValuable Lessons Author:Johnny Carson
“I've certainly faced some raw, real pain in my life. I lost my father to a car accident when I was young. My mother died ten years ago. My son was very sick as an infant. Eventually, I have attempted to transform this pain into art, to make meaning out of it.” YearsArtRealPainYoungMotherFatherLostCarSonTenYears AgoSickDiedAccidentsMy SonInfantCar AccidentMother DiedReal Pain Author:Dani Shapiro
“This religion teaches that 6,000 years ago God made the first man out of dust - not even mud - and the first woman out of a bone; that God cursed the whole human race because a snake made the woman eat an apple; that God had a son by another man's wife, and that he had this son murdered in order to keep himself from sending all the human race to hell.” MenYearsFirstsHumansMadeWholeOrderRaceTeachHellWifeAtheismSonYears AgoBonesDustHuman RaceApplesMudSnakesAnother ManCursed Author:Charles Chilton Moore
“In real life, my son had a little injury a couple of years ago where we had moved into a new house and he put his hand through a glass window and it cut him really badly. Thank god he had surgery and repaired everything, but I remember I felt frozen I was so scared, and then I realized I was holding my hand just because his hand was hurt.” YearsLittlesRealHandsRememberHouseFeltHurtCuttingSonCoupleYears AgoWindowMovedGlassesScaredI RealizedReal LifeInjuryMy SonThank GodSurgeryFrozen Author:Molly Shannon
“My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Samaria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.” YearsFirstsNamesKnownLandSonThousandYears AgoIsraelHillsThousand YearsJacob Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there had been a time when she'd felt a loneliness so deep that once, not so many years ago, having a cavity filled, the dentist's gentle turning of her chin with his soft fingers had felt to her like a tender kindness of almost excruciating depth, and she had swallowed with a groan of longing, tears springing to her eyes.” YearsLightEyeFeltWaitingBehindsKindnessLonelinessTearsSonYears AgoStandingFilledLongingFingersDepthGentleRememberedMidstTrafficHer EyesChinsDentistTraffic Light Book:Olive Kitteridge: Fiction Source: Olive Kitteridge: Fiction
“When God wanted to defeat sin, His ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of His own Son. On Christmas Day two thousand years ago, the birth of a tiny baby in an obscure village in the Middle East was God's supreme triumph of good over evil.” YearsTwoWantedEvilSinSacrificeMiddleSonBabyBirthThousandWeaponsYears AgoUltimateDefeatEastTinySupremeTriumphVillageMiddle EastThousand YearsObscureChristmas DayGood Over Evil Author:Charles Colson
“What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born.” GivingYearsMotherCulturePeaceBornSonBirthHundredYears AgoMy TimeMeant To BeMaryFourteen Author:Meister Eckhart
“I am a father. My son's name is Max and my daughter's name is Billie Grace. Twelve years ago Max was born with Down Syndrome. His journey has been complicated by infantile seizures, sleep apnea, dietary challenges and now, puberty!” YearsHas BeensMotherFatherNamesBornChallengesSleepGraceJourneySonDaughterYears AgoComplicatedMy DaughterMy SonTwelveMaxSyndromesPubertyInfantileSeizuresDown Syndrome Author:John C. McGinley
“While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea], not having invented their phrases for themselves, but having testimony from their fathers, wrote as they did. For ancient bishops, of the great Rome and our city [i.e., Alexandria, Egypt, where Athanasius was bishop], some 130 years ago, wrote and censured those who said that the Son was a creature and not consubstantial with the Father.” MenYearsSaidEarthFatherCitiesSonCreaturesYears AgoAncientPhrasesSpokesSarcasticRomeEgyptTestimonyBishopsSprungAlexandria Author:Athanasius of Alexandria
“When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".” YearsSaidTwoDoneAsksChristianityMorningSonThousandYears AgoAccountsJewProofRingsSundayBellsThousand YearsAssertionSunday Morning Book:The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, all-too-human Source: The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, all-too-human