Sermon quotes for
mother’s day
Maya Angelou
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.
Honore de Balzac
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Robert Browning
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Erich Fromm
Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Billy Graham
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
Rudyard Kipling
If I were damned of body and soul,
I know whose prayers would make me whole,
Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!
Mother o’ Mine
Abraham Lincoln
All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Cardinal Meymillod
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.
Edgar Allen Poe
The angels, whispering to one another
Can find, among their burning terms of love,
None so devotional as that of “Mother”
To My Mother
J.K. Rowling
“He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.”
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Source Unknown
“If at first you don’t succeed, try doing it the way mom told you to in the beginning.”
Booker T. Washington
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
George Washington
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
A.W. Tozer
We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts”
The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine
Jen Wilkin
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 right motive for those in our homes, it’s as if we’ve done them for Christ himself (Matt. 25:31–45)