Quotes
Quotes about Children
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.
There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.
Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.
Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.
Children have more need of models than of critics.
It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
Our children's children will hear a good story.
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.
You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
The soul is healed by being with children.
If we could raise one generation with unconditional love, there would be no Hitlers. We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
God has set in the midst of you, as the ever present witness and figure of heaven, His holy House of Prayer. There it stands, built for no earthly purpose, different in shape, and in all things belonging to it, from earthly habitations; speaking only of heaven, and heavenly uses, and heavenly gifts, and heavenly blessings; the gate of heaven when we are brought into it as little children to Christ; the gate of heaven, if so God grant us, when we are brought to it, and pass through it the last time on our way to our grave beside it. And here we meet our God.
Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: It was only in the light of Easter that the disciples understood Jesus' work and intention; they now realized that the Messiah had to undergo rejection and suffering, that he was to conquer not Rome but death and evil. We have no reason to mistrust the New Testament assurance. The Easter message and the historical Jesus are joined by a bridge resting on many piers. Jesus proclaimed the good news of the presence of God who, like a forgiving father, seeks his lost children and grants even sinners the company of the Redeemer; the disciples preached the Gospel of Christ, who appeared as saviour and died on the cross for sinners. In the Holy Spirit Jesus drove out unclean spirits and conquered Satan; from Easter onwards he was extolled as the Lord of all spirits, who gives the Holy Spirit to believers and in him is ever present with them.
