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When my niece bore her first child, she invited her brother and mother to stand in the delivery room. After witnessing three hours of pushing, when the baby finally crowned, my nephew turned to his mo...

Loving God, You knit us together in our mother’s womb and breathe us into being. Thank you for the gift of life and for bringing us into this world through our mothers. We recognize the risk they took...

Thank You, Lord, for the gifts of life, of love and of care that come from You, wrapped in our moms and step-moms, in our grand-moms, great-grandmas, daughters, sisters, and aunts. We’re grateful for...

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

The angels, whispering to one another Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of “Mother”

“When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.”

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Mothering or nurturing is not just a calling for women who have biological or adopted children. Mothering is a calling for all women. Every Christian woman is called to the spiritual motherhood of mak...

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

The Christian mom doesn’t love Jesus instead of loving her children; she loves Jesus by loving her children.

Jesus taught that providing shelter for the shelterless, food for the hungry, and clothing for the naked are sacred acts. They’re also the hallmark activities of mothering. When we do them from the ri...

If God is our father, the church is our mother.

I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England.

Suppose we admitted for the sake of argument that motherhood was powerful.

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.

Motherhood is a million little moments that God weaves together with grace, redemption, laughter, tears, and most of all, love.

“I’m not like a regular mom, I’m a cool mom.”

If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!

No calling is greater, nobler, or more fulfilling than that of motherhood.

"There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears."

Being a mom means never buying the right amount of produce. Either everyone suddenly loves grapes and a week’s worth are eaten in one afternoon, or fruit flies are congregating around my rotting banan...

Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.

Susanne Wesley, wife of Pastor Samuel Wesley, lived in the late 1600’s and early 1700’s She gave birth to nineteen children, ten survived. Everyday she would take her Bible to her favorite chair and...

Mothers and infants do an enormous amount of touching. The first emotional comfort, touching and being touched by our mother, remains the ultimate memory of selfless love, which stays with us lifelong...

An empty-nester friend of mine was recently reflecting on the long days at home with a growing family. “You just gotta keep slinging chow,” she said with a laugh. I laughed too . . . but not quite as ...