Christian Quotes on Family

"As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live." 

- Pope John Paul II

Serving Leads to Joy

"To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others." 

- Pope John Paul II

Expect a Struggle

"The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family. The family is placed at the center of the great struggle between good and evil, between life and death, between love and all that is opposed to love." 

- Pope John Paul II

The Family is a domestic Church

"Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church." 

- Pope John Paul II

Family first, make family time
"I think the world today is upside down. Everybody seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater development and greater riches and so on. There is much suffering because there is so very little love in homes and in family life. We have no time for our children, we have no time for each other; there is no time to enjoy each other. In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world." 

- Mother Teresa

The Familiy & the love for the home

"Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could be avoided if our people really loved their homes." 

- Mother Teresa

Realize how important one family, your family, really is

"The family, as the fundamental and essential educating community, is the privileged means for transmitting the religious and cultural values which help the person to acquire his or her own identity. Founded on love and open to the gift of life, the family contains in itself the very future of society; its most special task is to contribute effectively to a future of peace." 

- Pope John Paul II

Marriage
"Christ is an equal partner in your marriage...Above all, accept the fact that you are not alone as a married couple.  Christ is with you, and because Christ is with you, so is His body, and the Church."
--Archbishop Robert Carlson

Surrender/Self-lessness
"Surrender your personal wants to the greater good of your spouse, your family, your community, and your Church...Make sacrifices."
--Archbishop Robert Carlson

Prayer
"Pray together, not just in tough times, but whenever you can."
--Archbishop Robert Carlson