Don't Let Family Become an Idol

“Our kindred sometimes would stand in our way to heaven, and, judging all zeal rashness, would hinder us from being saved. … Take heed of a snare in your bosom. It is a brave saying of Jerome, ‘If my parent should persuade me to deny Christ, if my mother should show me her breast that nursed me, if my wife should go to charm me with her embraces, I would forsake all, and fly to Christ.’"