Ezekiel Emanuel Quotes

My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table until you ate living bread and drank living water. They never left the table until they'd read Scripture together. So morning, lunch, suppertime, Scripture was always read at the table, and then there was prayer to close.

Two of the central ingredients to our family are food and faith, so sitting down together and thanking God for the food He's provided means everything to us. Prayer is a natural part of our lives - not only around the dinner table, but all day long.

The adage 'a family that prays together, stays together' is so true.

There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.

My whole family is really close. I'm lucky for that.

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.

I'll do a little prayer here and there if I feel the need to.

Spirituality - prayer - is a big part of my life.

All my life I thank God. My family was very religious.

Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.

My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

Our families should gather for family prayer morning and night.

I'm a true country Southern girl that has always been built around family, cookouts and gatherings and being together on the holidays, singing together and laughing together. So whenever God opened doors for me to be able to travel the world and sing and do all the great things that I've done, I didn't want to lose that part so family first for me.

I have a wonderful family!

My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn't drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that's who I am.

I always start my New Year at church with my family. I see it as a fresh beginning - like a new chance we get to renew our lives, perhaps? Starting it by praying gives me a lot of hope for the future.

Believe it or not, I say my prayers in the morning and in the evening.

Being religious and spiritual makes me feel good.

Without getting too spiritual, God has done so much for me; the least I can do is drink Kiddush wine on a Friday night.

My mom and dad are great cooks. We ate meals at the dinner table, as a family.

When I get out of bed in the morning, I literally say a prayer. The first thing I do is thank God that I got through the night.

As I was growing up, all meals, including breakfast, were family occasions, and you all sat down to eat together - and you had to finish everything as well.

My morning rituals are typical. I wake up yearning for a few extra moments of rest. I express gratitude to a higher power for the breath in my body and the blessings in my life. I shower. I dress. I eat breakfast. I exchange laughter and words with my beloveds, embracing each other as we say our daily goodbyes.

Let your first 'good morning' be to your Heavenly Father.