A VISION of FATHERHOOD

"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children." ~ Charles R Swindoll, The Strong Family

"It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home --- it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love." ~ Margaret Truman

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." ~ George Herbert

"It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we will do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it myself." ~ Joyce Maynard

"The fathers . . . owe to their homes the best influence of their lives . . . The very centre of every man's life should be his home.

Instead of being to him a mere boarding house where he eats and sleeps, and from which he starts out in the mornings to his world, it ought to be the place where his heart is anchored, where his hopes gather, to which his thoughts turn a thousand times a day, for which he toils and struggles, and into which he brings always the richest and best things of his life.

He should realize that he is responsible for the character and the influence of his home life . . ." ~ JR Miller in HOME-MAKING

"No piling up of this world's treasures
can compensate a man
for the loss of those incomparable jewels,
his own children."

~ JR Miller
in SECRETS of a HAPPY HOMELIFE ~

[TOP art © 2008 Joseph Baylor Roberts]
[R="Innocence Shared" © 2008 Sandra Kuck]