THE QUALITIES OF A MOTHER

 

THE QUALITIES OF A MOTHER

            The qualities of a mother are uncountable. They are as many as of Almighty God. According to a Jewish saying :God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

            The German religious reformer Martin Luther (1483-1546) said: When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called her Eva, that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother, mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman.

            A mother’s love is unconditional; her self-sacrifice is unlimited; she is exceedingly patient and tolerant; her degree of forgiveness is immeasurable ; she stands by her children through every thick and thin; when nobody is there to look after them and help them in a crisis, she is generously there with all her stamina and resources; she never becomes  outdated ; she is always young for her children  and they  are always  children  for their old mother even when they  have become  a father or a mother in their own separate home and are no longer small children.

            Here are two famous quotes about mothers.

1.     English critic and historian Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859):

“Children, look in those eyes, listen to that dear voice, notice the feeling of even a single touch that is bestowed upon you by that gentle hand! Make much of it while yet you have that most precious of all gifts, a loving mother. Read the unfathomable love of those eyes ; the kind anxiety of that tone and look, however slight your pain. In after life you may have friends, fond, dear friends, but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you, which none but a mother bestows.”

2.     American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian and diplomat Irving Washington (1783-1859):

“A father may turn his back on his child; brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies; husbands may desert their wives, and wives their husbands. But a mother’s love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world’s condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy/”

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G.R.Kanwal

10 May 2026