The unblemished ideal exists ...

The unblemished ideal exists only in happily-ever-after fairy tales. Ruth likes to say, \
The unblemished ideal exists only in happily-ever-after fairy tales. Ruth likes to say, "If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary." The sooner we accept that as a fact of life, the better we will be able to adjust to each other and enjoy togetherness. "Happily incompatible" is a good adjustment.

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Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn't pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him.
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.
The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry.
The thing that I remember the most in my childhood was the love of family and the discipline in the family. My father and mother both were disciplinarians, and they didn't mind using the rod. Maybe because I was the oldest child I always felt I got much more of it than anybody else.