30+ Inspiring Quotes About Motherhood and Home
Motherhood and home are indelibly connected, for it is largely the mother who makes a house a home.
On my front porch hangs a flower planter with a nest in it. Over the past few months my children and I have observed one mother bird after another make their home in the nest, lay their eggs, offer protection and nourishment to their newborns, and prepare them to leave the nest.
Mother birds know what so many in the world have forgotten, or have chosen to ignore: children need their mothers in their formative years.
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Motherhood Quotes
May these beautiful quotes inspire your heart and encourage your weary soul.
Mother Teresa
“If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.”
William Ross Wallace
“The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.”
J.R. Miller
“The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.”
Elizabeth George
“What is a godly mother? A godly mother is one who loves the Lord her God with all her heart, soul, mind and strength and then passionately, consistently and unrelentingly teaches her child to do the same.”
Gloria Furman
“Mothering (or nurturing) is a calling not just 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 making disciples of all nations. Our nurturing is, by nature, missional.”
Sally Clarkson
“The mother who reaches the heartfelt needs of her children by helping them feel loved and secure, by believing in their dreams, by noticing when they stray and gently steering them back in the right direction, and by teaching them what they need to know to live full and meaningful lives accomplishes a great work for the Lord.”
E.T. Sullivan
“We fancy that God can only manage His world with battalions, when all the while he is doing it by beautiful babies. When a wrong wants righting, or a truth needs preaching or a continent needs opening, God sends a baby into the world . . . perhaps in a simple home and of some obscure mother. And then God puts the idea into the mother’s heart, and she puts it into the baby’s mind. And then God waits. The greatest forces in the world are not the earthquakes and thunderbolts. The greatest forces in the world are babies.”
Gloria Furman
“God did not create motherhood as “just” a list of to-dos. God did not create motherhood as “just” a sentimental greeting card. God did not create motherhood as a trifling, negligible “just”. . . . Nothing he does or wills could possibly be inconsequential or petty. No woman made in God’s image, made for God’s mission, could be “just” a mom. Missional motherhood is a strategic ministry designed by God to call people to worship the One who is seated on the throne in heaven.”
Charles Spurgeon
“The power of a mother’s prayers with all her children kneeling around is far greater than any public ministry.”
J.R. Miller
“Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is place in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,–she would see that in all God’s world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no others hands the sacred and holy trust given to her.”
Sally Clarkson
“I began to picture my children’s hearts as treasure chests of a different sort, and I vowed to fill them with intrinsic treasures: the best stories, memorized Scripture, priceless images of classical art, excellent books, memories from great feasts enjoyed together and special days celebrated, great Bible stories and wisdom passages, plus heart photographs of love given, holidays cherished, lessons learned.”
Lydia Sigourney
“…no universal agent of civilization exists, but through mothers. Nature has placed in their hands, our infancy and youth. I have been among the first to declare the necessity of making them, by improved education, capable of fulfilling their natural mission.
The love of God and man, is the basis of this system. In proportion as it prevails, national enmities will disappear, prejudices become extinguished, civilization spread itself far and wide,–one great people cover the earth, and the reign of God be established. This is to be hastened, by the watchful care of mothers over their offspring, from the cradle upwards.” ~ Lydia Sigourney
George Washington
“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”
J.R. Miller
“Mothers of young children, your work is most holy. You are fashioning the destinies of immortal souls. The powers folded up in the little ones that you hushed to sleep in your bosoms last night, are powers that shall exist forever. You are preparing them for their immortal destiny and influence. Be faithful. Take up your sacred burden reverently. Be sure that your heart is pure and that your life is sweet and clean.”
John Wesley
“My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.”
C.S. Lewis
“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.”
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Home Quotes
Maya Angelou
“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
C.S. Lewis
“Homemaking is surely in reality the most important job in the world. What do ships, railways, mines, cars, government, etc exist for, except that people may be fed, warmed and safe in their own homes? The homemaker’s job is one for which all others exist.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Home is the nicest word there is.”
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Harold B. Lee
“The greatest work we will ever do will be within the walls of our own home.”
J.R. Miller
“A true home is one of the most sacred of places. It is a sanctuary into which men flee from the world’s perils and alarms. It is a resting-place to which at close of day the weary retire to gather new strength for the battle and toils of tomorrow. It is the place where love learns its lessons, where life is schooled into discipline and strength, where character is molded.”
Sally Clarkson
“All people need a place where their roots can grow deep and they always feel like they belong and have a loving refuge. And all people need a place that gives wings to their dreams, nurturing possibilities of who they might become.”
Sally Clarkson
“Home is to be a safe place, a refuge for all who enter, a protection from the harm and storms of the world. Yet often or even daily we open our doors — usually via television or the internet — to ideas and images that can damage our faith, abuse our hearts and minds, sear our psyches, and tear apart our peace. Home should be a place where, behind its doors, one should expect to find protection and safety from all the harms of life, including voices that do not speak truth or wisdom. Only the foolish would invite just anyone to enter the door of their home.”
Louisa May Alcott
“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
Sally Clarkson
“But my parents understood that the world that they made within the walls of our house was what constituted home. So I grew up in spaces framed by art and color, filled with candlelight, marked by beauty. I grew up within a rhythm of time made sacred by family devotions in the morning and long conversations in the evening. I grew up with the sense of our daily life as a feast and delight; a soup-and-bread dinner by the fire, Celtic music lilting in the shadows, and the laughter of my siblings gave me a sense of the blessedness of love, of God’s life made tangible in the food and touch and air of our home.
It was a fight for my parents, I know. Every day was a battle to bring order to mess, peace to stressful situations, beauty to the chaos wrought by four young children. But that’s the reality of incarnation as it invades a fallen world….What my parents-bless them-knew…is that to make a home right in the midst of the fallen world is to craft out a space of human flesh and existence in which eternity rises up in time, in which the kingdom comes, in which we may taste and see the goodness of God.”
W. W. Phelps
“Sacrifice brings forth the blessings of Heaven.”
Sally Clarkson
“When someone once asked me just what it was that my parents did that made me believe in God, without even thinking I said, “I think it was French toast on Saturday mornings and coffee and Celtic music and discussions and candlelight in the evenings . . .” Because in those moments I tasted and saw the goodness of God in a way I couldn’t ignore.”
Billy Graham
“The home is basically a sacred institution… Faith in Christ is the most important of all principles in the building of a happy marriage and a successful home.”
Sally Clarkson
“Keeping house—picking up those messes one more time—is a service of worship to God as we craft a place of beauty and comfort for all who enter our sanctuary of His very presence.”
Billy Graham
“The happiest Christian homes I know are those given to hospitality, where neighbors feel at home, where young people are welcome, where the elderly people are respected, where children are loved.”
Martin Luther
“What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God.”
Sally Clarkson
“Home is your garden of life, so to speak, and you are free to order it and plant it as you will. But all great works of life must be planned in order to make them productive, useful, and flourishing.”
Books by the Authors
- Life Giving Home by Sally Clarkson
- A Woman After God’s Own Heart by Elizabeth George
- Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well by Billy Graham
- The Little Women Collection by Louisa May Alcott
- Little House Collection by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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