Guidance & Wisdom
A person of great quality was pleased to lodge a night in my house; I durst not invite him to my family prayer, and therefore for that time omitted it.
Let thy religion begin at home.
I wouldn’t give a snap of my finger for a religion that doesn’t begin at home.
Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;
Genuine Scriptural holiness will make a man do his duty at home and by the fireside.
A good, loving son generally turns out better than a refractory son.
These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Praying Samuels come from praying Hannahs.
From whence we may infer, that the only reason, why so many neglect to read the words of scripture diligently to their children is, because the words of scripture are not in their hearts.
You may but speak a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart.
The tree grows the way the twig is bent.
Hereafter, whosoever cometh within the doors shall be requested to come within the discipline of my house; if accepting my homely diet, he will not refuse my home devotion; and sitting at my table, will be entreated to kneel down by it.
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