In the family, the focal point must be the Trinity. Because each member of the Trinity loves, the fact that each member is distinct does not deprive the relationship of unity.

Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

Godly parents have often been afflicted with wicked children; grace does not run in the blood, but corruption does. Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume 2 (McLean, Mac Donald Publishing Company) 507

The family is a good institution becsause it is uncongenial.

There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs, than with his children, servants and neighbors.

What a father says to his children will not be heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

Tolerance is, no doubt, a virtue without which none of us can live; but we must, nevertheless, at least understand that it is, strictly speaking, destructive of fellowship, for it is a gesture by which the divine disturbance is rejected. The ONE in whom we are veritably united is Himself the great intolerance. He willeth to rule, to be victorious, to be - everything. He it is who disturbs every family gathering, every scheme for the reunion of Christendom, every human co-peration. And He disturbs, because He is the Peace that is above every estrangement and cleavage and faction.

The human genome will not help us to understand the spiritual side of humankind, or to know who God is or what love is. The well-heeled couple who decide they want to use genetics to have a child that is a gifted musician may end up with a sullen adolescent who smokes marijuana and doesn’t talk to them.

What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and the work flow.

Salvation has something to say not only to the individual man but also to the culture. Christianity is individual in the sense that each man must be born again, one at a time. But it is not individualistic. The distinction is important. As God made man, He also made an Eve so that there could be finite, horizontal relationships between two people. Death in the City (Downers Grove, InterVarsity Press: 1969) 86