Sunu Philip

I have compiled these quotes from a variety of books and blogs. The individual copyright for each

quote belongs to the respective author.

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Disclaimer

Oh, how I love quotes! God has often used inspirational quotes to speak to me. A quote would often come to me at just the right time, speaking to

my exact situation. I’ve come across a variety of quotes that have inspired me over the years to be a

better person... a better mother.

I hope this set of inspirational motherhood quotes compiled from various authors, books and blogs

will speak to you as they did to me.

Introduction

Sunu Philip

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A mother who gives her children a heart to celebrate God's life and

beauty gives a gift of life.

- Sally Clarkson

Our children are only ever lent to us. We never know just how long we

will be able to keep them for. So kiss them, cuddle them, praise them &

hold them tightly. But most of all . . . tell them you love

them every day!

- Carly Marie

A mom's hug lasts long after she lets go.

– Anonymous

No one will remember my name or my face years from now, but my

obedience to God will echo through the generations that follow me.

– Angela Peritt

God does not need perfect mothers but prodigal mothers. Lavish in

love, extravagant in truth and big spenders of grace.

– Ann Voskamp

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

– Henry Ward Beecher

Motherhood is a process of shaping - shaping both our children and us

to be more like Christ.

– Courtney Joseph

Give Jesus what faith you have, mama. He specializes in taking

nothing and turning it into something.

– Brooke McGlothlin

Motherhood is about raising and celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you would

have. It's about understanding that he is exactly the person he is

supposed to be. And that, if you're lucky, he just might be the teacher who turns you into the person you

are supposed to be.

– Joan Ryan

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her

children.

– Billy Graham

You are not “Just a Mom”.

God has blessed you, entrusted you, and promised to empower you by His

grace to live out this mission of motherhood.

– Ruth Schwenk

God begins molding a mother after His own heart on the inside

- in the inner woman and her heart - and then works outward!

– Elizabeth George

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

-W. R. Wallace

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

- Jewish Proverb

The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is

life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be

answered..

- D.L. Moody

God has set my feet upon the path of motherhood, and with each step I

take, I see a little more of His blessings unfurl.

- Darlene Schacht

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

- Robert Browning

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you

will always find forgiveness.

- Honore de Balzac

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice,

once for herself and once for her child.

-Sophia Loren, Women and Beauty

The most precious jewels I will ever wear around my neck are the arms

of my children.

- Author Unknown

A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are

forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.

- Helen Rice

You are never more like God than when you love, pray for and serve

your family.

- Dr. Jim Burns

Never could it be possible for any man to estimate what he owes to a

godly mother.

- Charles Spurgeon

Motherhood is priced of God, at price no man may dare to lessen or

misunderstand.

- Helen Hunt Jackson

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the

payment is pure love.

- Mildred B. Vermont

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes by

dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and

cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.

- Kate Douglas Wiggin

Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts

forever.

- Anonymous

A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

- Emily Dickinson

I want my kids to have a strong spiritual life where they will soar

for the Lord. So I need to be intentional to fan the flame of their

child-like faith.

- Jolene Engle

Our goal in parenting is not ultimately for our kids to get a great education or to be great athletes or

to find a great husband or get a great career. Our goal is for them to

love a great God..

- David Platt

A mother understands what a child does not say.

- Jewish Proverb

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for

five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

- Tenneva Jordan

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of

our children.

- Charles R. Swindoll, The Strong Family

Great mothers build bridges instead of walls.

- Reed Markham

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the

impossible.

- Marion C. Garretty, A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup

for the Mother's Soul

Our children are perhaps the smallest, but greatest mission field

there is in the world.

- Rosilind Jukic

That best academy, a mother's knee.

- James Russell Lowell

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never

existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is

something absolutely new.

- Rajneesh

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a

good one.

- Jill Churchill

Since Jesus highly values children, mothers are His servants when they

bless their children for Him.

- Art Birch

Motherhood is more than a stage — it’s a lifelong calling from God.

With it He gives us hearts that love deeply, hands that serve tirelessly, and vision to see His blossoming

image in the precious ones entrusted to our care.

- Anonymous

I affirm my profound belief that God's greatest creation is

womanhood. I also believe that there is no greater good in all the

world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

- James E. Faust

The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.

- St. Therese of Lisieux

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever

to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

- Elizabeth Stone

Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on

each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You

long to comfort all who are desolate..

- Charlotte Gray

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a

mother's love.

- Edwin Chapin

Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn’t know you had and dealing with fears you didn’t

know existed.

- Linda Wooten

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a

mother you are no longer the center of your own universe. You

relinquish that position to your children.

- Jessica Lange

We never know the love of the parent until we become parents

ourselves.

- Henry Ward Beecher

To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a

position of such power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of

nations, for to her comes the responsibility and opportunity of molding the nation's citizens.

- Spencer W. Kimball

Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how

to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one

theory: love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved.

- Kate Samperi

One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.

- George Herbert

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep

soundly in them.

- Victor Hugo

Dear Weary Mom, your greatest significance comes when you point

your kids to Jesus.

- Tricia Goyer

Mother’s love grows by giving.

- Charles Lamb

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.

- Elain Heffner

Get to know the heart of the Father. He will give you everything

you need to love and discipline your children well.

- Monica Swanson

Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.

- Cheryl Lacey Donovan

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no

bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and

forgiving.

- Gail Tsukiyama

Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and

worries.

- T. DeWitt Talmage

You have a calling that can become the long-remembered ground of faith, not just for your children—

mark this—but for the untold numbers who will be affected by

your children.

- John Piper

Your children will never move toward honoring others until they genuinely believe that you value

people over things.

- Dave Stone

There is no one perfect way to be a good mother. Each situation is unique. Each mother has different challenges,

different skills and abilities, and certainly different children. The

choice is different and unique for each mother and each family. What matters

is that a mother loves her children deeply…

- M. Russell Ballard

Your child will follow your example...not your advice!

- Author Unknown

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens

around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts

and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to

our hearts.

- Washington Irving

Successful mothers are not the ones who have never struggled. They are the ones who never give up, despite

the struggles.

- Sharon Jaynes

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They

have clung to me all my life.

- Abraham Lincoln

Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get

bigger, older, but grown? What’s that suppose to mean? In my heart it don’t

mean a thing.

- Toni Morrison

Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,

Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,

Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,

But only one mother the wide world over.

- George Cooper

What is a mom but the sunshine of our days and the north star of our

nights.

- Robert Brault

I take joy in caring for my home because I am extremely grateful

that I have a home!

- Bridget Childress

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret

hope outlives them all.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.

- Moorish Proverb

Home is a wonderful blessing from God to keep us warm and dry!

- Ren Simonitis

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already

asleep..!

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.

- Jules Michelet

My mother is a poem I’ll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.

- Sharon Doubiago

A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the

guise of fond memories.

- Honoré de Balzac

The sweetest sounds to mortals given

Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.

- William Goldsmith Brown

To the world you might just be one person,

but to one person you might just be the world.

- Author Unknown

"M" is for the million things she gave me, "O" means only that she's growing old, "T" is for the tears she shed to save me,

"H" is for her heart of purest gold; "E" is for her eyes, with love-light shining, "R" means right, and right she'll always be,

Put them all together, they spell "MOTHER”,

A word that means the world to me.

- Howard Johnson

A mother, when you’re a child she walks before you, to set an example. When you’re a teenager she walks behind you to be there should you

need her. When you're a adult she walks beside

you so that as two friends you can enjoy

life together!

- Author Unknown

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household

is the mother!

- Beverly Jones

Without my Children my house would be clean my wallet would be full but my heart would be empty.

- Author Unknown

The glory of motherhood comes camouflaged in so much chaos.

- Lisa-Jo Baker

Motherhood is a mission; your children, the mission field.

- Rachel Jankovic

A mother's dream is to see her children grow to be happy and

successful.

- Author Unknown

No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or

wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for

little things, but never for the big ones.

- Harry Truman

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his

mother the longest.

- Irish Proverb

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders

wherever your children do.

- Author Unknown

Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the

memory of a lullaby.

- Robert Brault

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

- Oprah Winfrey

The love of a true mother comes nearer to being like the love of God

than any other kind of love.

- Joseph F. Smith

“Do you know who created motherhood?” God whispered, “It was Me.”

Everything good in this world is a reflection of God, for He is all things good.

And true mother-love? It comes from Him.

And God gives true mother-love to more than just mothers.

- Natasha Metzler

Have a positive attitude of expectation for your children. If we

expect them to be difficult, then most likely that attitude will be

visible and they will be…

- Misty Leask

While you may catch an occasional glimpse of how rich you are on this earth, the full value of motherhood

can only be calculated by the almighty God.

- Rachel Wojnarowski

A mothers greatest joy in having a child is to give that child fully and

freely to God.

- Elizabeth George

A mother doesn’t give up everything. Rather, she is given a gift. She is

blessed.

- Lisa Jacobson

A dedicated mother isn’t a perfect mother. She is simply, but wholly,

committed to the task of motherhood. She recognizes her

shortcomings and prays for strength, breathes in deep, and tries

again.

- Christin Slade

A mother’s part in sustaining the life of her children and making it

pleasant and comfortable is no triviality. It calls for self-sacrifice

and humility, but it is the route, as was the humiliation of Jesus, to

glory.

- Elisabeth Eliot

Motherhood is messy; motherhood is glorious. Hold on to the One who gave you

the gift of motherhood, and He will help you be the best mother for your children.

Last Words…

Much Love,

Sunu Philip

And my prayer is that this little book will serve as motivation when motherhood

feels quite overwhelming!

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