I remember my beloved mother years ago when I was a boy, how often she said to me looking at me through her tears, "I would rather see you a man of God than anything else. I should not care if you break stones by the wayside for a living so long as you are a man of God."

Interestingly similar to JND's quote "If I had children, I would as soon see them break stones on the road as do anything else, if I could only secure to them the Gospel and the grace of God"