Chrysostom

To each of you fathers and mothers, I speak: Just as we see artists fashioning their paintings and statues with great precision, so we must care for these wondrous statues of ours. . . . Like the creators of statues, give all your leisure time to fashioning these wondrous statues of God. As you remove what is unhelpful and add what is lacking, inspect them day by day, to see with which good qualities nature has supplied them so that you can increase these qualities, and to see which faults so that you can eradicate them.

J. Chrysostom, De Inani Gloria, ed. A. M. Malingrey (Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1972), § 22.

A Theology of Family Ministry, Chapter 9, Logos