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. Votes: 4
It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews. Votes: 0
Dude--she's your wife." He pointed to the locker where the Bible lay concealed. "God first, family second, country third. Votes: 0
I keep everything that is most important to me close to me: my family, my bible, my X-Box - just kidding. Votes: 0
In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back. Votes: 0
The Bible says we're to be moderate in all things. It's good to help others but not at the expense of your own family. Votes: 0
To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family? Votes: 0
If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible. Votes: 0
We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol. Votes: 0
I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth. Votes: 0
The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed. Votes: 6 Patrick Henry
A happy family is but an earlier heaven. Votes: 6 George Bernard Shaw