D. L. Moody once said that at a certain meeting two and a half people were converted to Christ. A friend asked if he meant two adults and a child. The facts were just the opposite – two children and an adult. When a child is led to Christ, a whole life is saved!
Children
Seth Dahl
We want to raise our children not to only avoid things that hurt God’s heart, but to pursue the things that bring Him joy!
Katherine Walden
God’s “not yet” means exactly that. It doesn’t mean “no”. Earthly parents sometimes lie to their child, saying “not yet,” with the hope their child will forget about their request. God’s “yes” is always ‘yes’ and His “no” is always “no.” God doesn’t forget His promises and He makes no promise that He will not keep.
Madeleine L’Engle
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability… To be alive is to be vulnerable.
Gary Chapman
The quality of your marriage greatly affects the way you relate to your children and the way they receive love. If your marriage is healthy, both partners treating each other with kindness, respect, and integrity—you and your spouse will feel and act as partners in parenting.
Amanda Cook
May we never lose our wonder. Wide-eyed and mystified, may we be just like a child, staring at the beauty of our King.
Theresa Dedmon
Just as teenagers can live in the same house as their parents, yet choose not to live “close” to them in partnership, so we can choose to be children of God, yet live very distant from God in our hearts. On the other hand, we can choose to have the closest partnership with Him, in which we know what He thinks, believes, and acts and what is important to Him. In this place of intimacy, we also discover just how close He wants to be with us.
Gypsy Smith
You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.
Chip Ingram
Remember that you are not called to produce successful, upwardly mobile, highly educated, athletically talented machines…Giving your children great opportunities is good; it is not, however, the goal of parenting. Christlikeness is. Above all, seek to raise children who look and act a lot like Jesus.
Roger J Squire
A wise person truly said, “It ought to be as impossible to forget that there is a Christian in the house as it is to forget that there is a ten-year-old boy in it.”