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Home: Quotations from Burning Words

A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities.— F. W. ROBERTSON

There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.— E. H. CHAPIN

When home is ruled according to God's word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.— C. H. SPURGEON

In the homes of America are born the children of America ; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.— J. G. HOLLAND

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well-ordered homes of the people.— MRS. SIGOURNEY

A Christian home! What a power it is to the child when he is far away in the cold, tempting world, and voices of sin are filling his ears, and his feet stand on slippery places.— A. E. KITTREDGE

The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become.— RICHARD CECIL

The simple pleasures of home are sweetest and last longest. Happy the man who is never so happy as when he opens the Bible to read and pray with his wife and children, or sits at his own table, the chief figure in the eyes of those who surround him. Happy, we say, is such a man, if, when he looks into the eyes of such a circle, he forgets himself in his love for them. The church life of such a family is really a part of its home life.— THE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE

Woe be to that house on whose altar the fire of love has gone out! Woe be to those who have no longer the sweet perfume of burning incense, but only a stench from the remains of the victim heart that has been consumed.— THE CHRISTIAN UNION

The pleasant converse of the fireside, the simple songs of home, the words of encouragement as I bend over my schooltasks, the kiss as I lie down to rest, the patient bearing with the freaks of my restless nature, the gentle counsels mingled with reproofs and approvals, the sympathy that meets and assuages every sorrow, and sweetens every little success - all these return to me amid the responsibilities which press upon me now, and I feel as if I had once lived in heaven, and, straying, had lost my way.— J. G. HOLLAND

I never heard my father's or mother's voice once raised in any question with each other; nor saw any angry or even slightly hurt or offended glance in the eyes of either. I never heard a servant scolded, nor even suddenly, passionately, or in any severe manner, blamed; and I never saw a moment's trouble or disorder in any household matter.— JOHN RUSKIN

It is to Jesus Christ we owe the truth, the tenderness, the purity, the warm affection, the holy aspiration, which go together in that endearing word-home; for it is He who has made obedience so beautiful, and affection so holy; it is He who has brought the Father's home so near, and has taught us that love is of God.— JAMES HAMILTON

The sweetest type of heaven is home-nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most strongly. Home, in one form and another, is the great object of life. It stands at the end of every day's labor, and beckons us to its bosom; and life would be cheerless and meaningless, did we not discern across the river that divides us from the life beyond, glimpses of the pleasant mansions prepared for us.— J. G. HOLLAND

The home came from heaven. Modeled on the Father's house and the many mansions, and meant the one to be a train-- ing place for the other, the home is one of the gifts of the Lord Jesus - a special creation of Christianity.— JAMES HAMILTON

Home and heaven are not so far separated as we sometimes think. Nay, they are not separated at all, for they are both in the same great building. Home is the lower story, and is located down here on the ground floor; heaven is above stairs, in the second and third stories; and, as one after another the family is called to come up higher, that which seemed to be such a strange place begins to wear a familiar aspect; and, when at last not one is left below, the home is transferred to heaven, and heaven is home.— ALEXANDER DICKSON

Keep the home near heaven. Let it face toward the Father's house. Not only let the day begin and end with God, with mercies acknowledged and forgiveness sought, but let it be seen and felt that God is your chiefest joy, His will in all you do the absolute and sufficient reason.— JAMES HAMILTON

It was Jesus Christ who, ever pointing to joys which do not perish in the using, wedded duty to delight, and re-opening to the Christian family a better paradise - the Father's house placed the earthly home in the vestibule of heaven.— JAMES HAMILTON

The ascension of Christ makes heaven seem homelike to us as we journey toward it; for Jesus wears our humanity at the right hand of the Father.— A. E. KITTREDGE

Home and Jesus! The two should be inseparable. Husband and wife need the clasp of that infinite love to keep their hearts true to each other. Parents need the guidance of that infinite wisdom and the power of that infinite strength, to keep them patient and long-suffering and gentle and wise in the training of immortal souls.— A. E. KITTREDGE

How rich this earth seems when we regard it - crowded with the loves of home! Yet I am now getting ready to go home to leave this world of homes and go home. When I reach that home, shall I even then seek yet to go home? Even then, I believe, I shall seek a yet warmer, deeper, truer home in the deeper knowledge of God - in the truer love of my fellow men. Eternity will be - my heart and my faith tell me - a traveling homeward, but in jubilation and confidence and the vision of the beloved.— GEORGE MACDONALD

Then I said in my heart, "Come home with me, beloved there is but one home for us all. When we find - in proportion as each of us finds that home, shall we be gardens of delight to each other - little chambers of rest - galleries of pictures - wells of water,"— GEORGE MACDONALD