Mother

Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
Exodus 20:12

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

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
Proverbs 1:8

A mother understands what a child does not say.
~Author Unknown

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

~Abraham Lincoln

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
~Irish Proverb

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

~Oprah Winfrey

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
~Harriet Beecher Stowe

Joy

When I said, “My foot is slipping,”
your love, O LORD, supported me.
When anxiety was great within me,
your consolation brought joy to my soul.
Psalm 94:18-19

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
Rosalind Russell

A wise son brings joy to his father,
but a foolish son grief to his mother.
Proverbs 10:1

Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.
Floyd W. Tomkins

When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous
but terror to evildoers.
Proverbs 21:15

It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.
Kojiro Tomita

At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children."
Luke 10:21