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Daily Inspiration Quote by Christopher Love

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

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A soft imperative dressed up as a blessing, Christopher Love's line pressures the household by flattering it. "Pray in your family daily" isn't simply devotional advice; it's a claim about what a family is supposed to be: a unit that performs faith together, out loud, on schedule. The second clause tightens the screw. "That yours may be in the number" turns prayer into a kind of social census, a roll call of the respectable. You're not only speaking to God; you're trying to be counted among the right people.

The subtext is less mystical than managerial. Family prayer becomes a daily ritual that disciplines time, hierarchy, and behavior. It sets parents up as spiritual administrators, children as witnesses and apprentices, the home as a small church with a built-in audience. The language of "call upon God" suggests a community that is legible through its practices: public enough to be recognized, private enough to feel intimate, repeatable enough to form identity.

Context matters here. Love wrote in a world where religious life doubled as civic life, where the boundary between spiritual vitality and social order was thin. In that setting, neglecting family prayer isn't just laziness; it's a sign of drift, maybe even danger. The sentence works because it offers a future-tense hope while quietly stoking present-tense anxiety: if you don't do this daily, what kind of family are you becoming, and who will you be mistaken for?

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Love, Christopher. (n.d.). Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/pray-in-your-family-daily-that-yours-may-be-in-171206/

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Love, Christopher. "Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God." FixQuotes. Accessed February 3, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/pray-in-your-family-daily-that-yours-may-be-in-171206/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/pray-in-your-family-daily-that-yours-may-be-in-171206/. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.

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Christopher Love is a Educator from Welsh.

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