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If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.


Kenneth L. Pike


#choose #could #i #mechanism #philosophy

The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.


Thomas Hardy


#parental-love #love

Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don't matter; they're just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is that it's warm and that it beats through a loving heart.


Scott Simon


#love

I am so touched at how my family has embraced my situation. They don't even know this child, and they already love her.


Nia Vardalos


#family

In the world of the Bible, one’s identity and one’s vocation are all bound up in who one’s father is. Men are called “son of” all of their lives (for instance, “the sons of Zebedee” or “Joshua, the son of Nun”). There are no guidance counselors in ancient Canaan or first-century Capernaum, helping “teenagers” decide what they want “to be” when they “grow up.” A young man watches his father, learns from him, and follows in his vocational steps. This is why “the sons of Zebedee” are right there with their father when Jesus finds them, “in their boat mending the nets” (Mark 1:19-20). The inheritance was the engine of survival, passed from father to son, an economic pact between generations. To lose one’s inheritance was to pilfer for survival, to become someone’s slave.


Russell Moore


#heritage #inheritance #family

Justification has so dominated the landscape of Christian thought that adoption has been marginalized. We don't hear much about our adoption at all. We hear a lot about forgiveness, but very little about the staggering reality of our inclusion in Jesus' relationship with his Father in the Spirit.


C. Baxter Kruger


#salvation #forgiveness

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.


Ralph Waldo Emerson


#adopt #her #nature #pace #patience

There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law that requires them to do so.


John Barry


#certainly #codes #federal #federal tax #law

There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.


Iris Chang


#also #child-bearing #china #country #epidemic

Those who are wounded wound others. Moses was wounded profoundly when he lost his birth family, his heritage, and his history. In the years to come, he would come to know Jehovah-rophe, the Healer of life’s sicknesses and sorrows. Exodus 15: 26b says, “…for I am the Lord, who heals you.” (from Under His Wings: Healing Truth for Adoptees of All Ages)


Beth Willis Miller


#healing #wounds #age