From Thoughts-About-God.com
I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me.
-Madeleine L’Engle
Before you were conceived, I wanted you.
Before you were born, I loved you.
Before you were an hour, I would die for you.
This is the miracle of life.
-Maureen Hawkins
The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
-St. Therese of Lisieux
A mother’s love has the ability to forgive even the most difficult child.
-Author Unknown
Motherhood is more than a stage—
it’s a lifelong calling from God.
With it He gives us hearts that love deeply,
hands that serve tirelessly, and vision to see
His blossoming image in the precious ones
entrusted to our care.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
-Honore De Balzac
A child’s hand in yours – what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
-Marjorie Holmes
"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."
-Elizabeth Stone
"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."
-Aristotle
"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."
-Washington Irving
"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother."
-Abraham Lincoln
"The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom."
-Henry Ward Beecher
"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."
-George Washington
"The best academy, a mother’s knee."
-James Russell Lowell
"Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you."
-Exodus 20:12
"As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted over Jerusalem."
-Isaiah 66:13
"I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also."
-2 Timothy 1:5
"As apostles of Christ we could have been a burden to you, but we were gentle among you, like a mother caring for her little children."
-1 Thessalonians 2:7
"Since Jesus highly values children, mothers are His servants when they bless their children for Him."
-Art Birch
"Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate."
-Charlotte Gray
"A mother’s yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man."
-George Eliot
"Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons."
-Napoleon Bonaparte
"Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words."
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
