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“Take your weakness— any weakness— and compare it with God’s strength. Our greatest wounds can be the very stepping-stones that lead our children to Christ.”

“Have you ever taken the time to begin the inevitable transfer of their allegiance from you to him?”

Burned my soul this morning.

“Be tender but be true”

“I want my children to see their promise in Jesus Christ — but I also want them to be very aware of their ruin without him. There is no hope apart from him…”

“…love as a principle of action that is carefully cultivated in your family life.” Would your children see love as the ruling principle, the guiding element, the prevailing climate, inside your house?”

“No form of vice, not worldliness, not greed of gold, not drunkenness itself, does more to un-Christianize society than evil temper. For embittering life, for breaking up communities, for destroying the most sacred relationships, for devastating homes, for withering up men and women, for taking the bloom off childhood; in short, for sheer gratuitous misery, producing power, this influence stands alone.”

Actual flames in my heart this morning.