mothers day on Tongue

O Lord, you have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all ...

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

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 ...

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

The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.

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

Come children God is calling us Gathering us Covering us with hope-filled wings Come children Rest against our Beloved’s breast Nurtured and nourished On the milk of love and kindness

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

“He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark."

We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts”

A mother’s service is the most intimate, willing, and dependable of all services, because it is truest of all. None has been able to fulfill it properly but Christ, and he alone can.  We know that ou...

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

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

I saw the blessed Trinity working. I saw that there were three attributes: fatherhood, motherhood, and lordship—all in one God. In the almighty Father we have been sustained and blessed with regard to...

For those who deeply want children and are denied them, those missing babies hover like silent ephemeral shadows over their lives. Who can describe the feel of a tiny hand that is never held?

I never considered myself a perfectionist before I had children. Perfectionism was someone else’s problem. It was the affliction of those pasty-faced library moles that haunted the campus stacks on Sa...

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Davon Huss tells the story of a boy who came home one hot afternoon, anxious to take a cool swim in the pond behind his home. He lived in south Florida, so taking a quick dip was a common way to cool ...

As truly as God is our Father, so truly is God our Mother... We were created by the motherhood of love, a mother’s love which never leaves us.

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...

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

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

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

Mother’s Day is complicated for a pastor. Among the happy families that are celebrating, there are children who were abused by mothers, mothers who lost lost a child, and women suffering from inferti...

Pastor: In peace, let us pray to the Lord:  People: Lord, have mercy. Pastor: For the holy Christian Church, here and scattered throughout the world, and for the proclamation of the Gospel and the...

God of all peace, We thank You for mothers For their nurture, For their unnoticed sacrifices, And for their care that showed us What Your love looks like before we knew Your name. We praise You for ...

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

"If at first you don't succeed, try doing it the way mom told you to in the beginning."

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

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