Family Bible Quotes:

Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

- Paul the Apostle

topic: Husband, Wife, Ephesians, Love Your Wife, Loving Wife

But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.

- Joshua

topic: Land, Lord, Ancestor, Family Bible, Serving The Lord

Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.

- Bo Burnham

source: Song: Haikus Sonnet Shakespeare, Album: Words Words Words, 2010

topic: Bible, Jesus, Kindness, Loving Others, Jesus Words

Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you

- Luke the Evangelist

topic: Hate, Love You, Enemy, Jesus Words, Turn The Other Cheek

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.

- Max Muller

topic: Memories, Paradise, Pages, Adam And Eve, Family Bible

The home was a school. Farm and cabin households, though bookless save for the Family Bible and The Sacred Harp, taught the girls to spin, weave, quilt, cook, sew, and mind their manners; the boys to wield gun, ax, hammer and saw, to ride, plow, sow and reap, and to be men. Nobody need ever be bored. Amusement did not have to be bought.

- Richard M. Weaver

topic: Girl, Quilts, War, Family Bible, Farms

A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance. I once found a small boy masturbating in the presence of the Victorian steel-engraving in a family Bible.

- Anthony Burgess

topic: Sex, Book, Boys, Family Bible, Victorian

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

- Alice Morse Earle

source: Alice Morse Earle (2012). “Child Life in Colonial Times”, p.3, Courier Corporation

topic: Suffering, Records, Distress, Family Bible

You may consider me presumptuous, gentlemen, but I claim to be a citizen of the United States, with all the qualifications of a voter. I can read the Constitution, I am possessed of two hundred and fifty dollars, and the last time I looked in the old family Bible I found I was over twenty-one years of age.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Gentleman, Age, Constitution, I Can Read, Presumptuous