Christian Quotes About Family: 28 Great Sayings

Family, according to one online dictionary source has several meaning. It could be:

“a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not” or
“the children of one person or one couple collectively” and
“any group of persons closely related by blood, as parents, children, uncles, aunts, and cousins” ^[1].

What that secular reference neglects to mention is that as Christians we are born into a new family – the family of God (John 1:12; Galatians 6:10; 1 Timothy 3:15). In this new family we are sons and daughters of the Almighty Heavenly Father and we are joint heirs with Jesus as brothers and sisters in Christ (Romans 8:17). Take a look at what some others have to say about family in these great Christian quotes about family.

Featured Family Quote: “Christian families are under attack in America! The Communists, Masons, Atheists, Humanists, Evolutionists, and other Godless sickos want to destroy the family. Parents beware, the government wants your child! ~ Lester Roloff, Evangelist

Family in Christ

The same Jesus Who turned water into wine can transform your home, your life, your family, and your future. He is still in the miracle-working business, and His business is the business of transformation. ~ Adrian Rogers, Pastor

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed. ~ Patrick Henry, USA’s Founding Father

The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body. ~ Charles Hodge, Seminary principal

No man hath a right to claim God as his Father, unless he feeleth in his soul, and believeth, solemnly, through the faith of God’s election, that he has been adopted into the one family of which is in heaven and earth, and that he has been regenerated or born again. ~ Charles Spurgeon, Pastor

Things that Affect the Family

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world. ~ Billy Sunday, Athlete & Evangelist

Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual. ~ Jonathan Edwards, Theologian & Missionary

If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest of our daily delights; and our family-worship the most valuable of our family-comforts… A church in the house will be a good legacy, nay, it will be a good inheritance, to be left to your children after you. ~ Matthew Henry, Clergyman

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian… and most of all, his family ought to know. ~ D.L. Moody, Evangelist

Things that Define & Refine the Family

…when we become children of God by faith in Jesus, we live in the best family from here to eternity.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. ~ Chuck Swindoll, Pastor

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. ~ G.K. Chesterton, Writer

God bestows His blessings without discrimination. The followers of Jesus are children of God, and they should manifest the family likeness by doing good to all, even to those who deserve the opposite. ~ F.F. Bruce, Biblical scholar

What higher motive could there be for the husband to love his wife? By loving her as Christ loved the church, he honors Christ in the most direct and graphic way. He becomes the embodiment of Christ’s love to his own wife, a living example to the rest of his family, a channel of blessing to his entire household, and a powerful testimony to a watching world. ~ John MacArthur, Pastor

In the family, life is brought not only to our doorstep, but into our kitchens, bedrooms, and dens. In the family, life is happening all around us, and it begs to be questioned, evaluated, interpreted, and discussed. There is no more consistent, pregnant, dynamic forum for instruction about life than the family, because that is exactly what God designed the family to be, a learning community. ~ Paul David Trip, Pastor

The family circle is the supreme conductor of Christianity. ~ Henry Drummond, Banker, Politician and Writer

What God says about Family Design

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. ~ Genesis 2:7

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. ~ Genesis 2:18

And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. ~ Genesis 2:21-22

What God Says about Family Relationships

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. ~ Deuteronomy 6:6-7

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother ~ Proverbs 1:8

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. ~ Proverbs 22:6

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. ~ 1 Corinthians 7:3-4

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. ~ Ephesians 5:21

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. ~ Ephesians 5:22-24

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it … So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband. ~ Ephesians 5: 25, 28, 33

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise ~ Ephesians 6:1-2

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. ~ Ephesians 6:4

But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God. ~ 1 Timothy 5:4

No matter how you look at it, a family is a group of individuals that live together, and even sometimes live apart. God designed the family and when we become children of God by faith in Jesus, we live in the best family from here to eternity. Do you have a favorite Christian quote about family? Share it in the comments below.