“If I could but know his heart everything would become easy” Sense and Sensibility
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“The Mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom” Henry Ward Beecher
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“he brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.” Song of Solomon 2:4

“In vain I have struggled. It will not do! My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you… Almost from the earliest moments of your acquaintance, I have come to feel for you a passionate admiration and regard, which despite my struggles, has overcome every rational objection. And I beg you, most fervently, to relieve my suffering and consent to be my wife.” Mr Darcy Pride and Prejudice
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“My Mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.” Mark Twain

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“Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.” Psalm 36:5

“I cannot make speeches, Emma; If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear notheing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.” Mr. Knightley in Emma

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“Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” Emily Dickinson

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“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger or sword?…No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.”" Romans 8:35, 37

“I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh” Elizabeth Pride and Prejudice

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“A Mother who is really a Mother is never free.” Honore de Balzac

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“For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.” Psalm 86:5

“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice

“A rich child often sits in a poor mother’s lap.” Danish proverb

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“…I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I cave continued my faithfulness to you.” Jeremiah 31:3

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love; and very lively hopes of Mr. Bingley’s heart were entertained.” Pride and Prejudice

“I wonder how she does it, holding it together the way she does. It seems no matter how life gets out of place she puts it back the way it was. It’s always been a mystery, but I guess it must be true. That there is nothings stronger than a mother’s love when she uses Mother’s Glue” Markess A Wilder

“Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord” Psalm 32:10

“If a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to ‘Yes,’ she ought to say ‘No’ directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.” Emma Woodhouse in Emma

“I’ve also realized that my dreams are not necessarily what really motivate my children to become the best they can be. What matters to them is my loving presence…If I want them to be open to my messages, I need to be willing to serve them-to voluntarily give up my rights and my time to meet their felt needs-just as Jesus was willing to give for his disciples.” Sally Clarkson in The Ministry of Motherhood

“The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.” Numbers 14:18

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others” – Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility

“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

“So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God and God abides in him.” I John 4:16