Quotes about Parenting

I would spend absolutely every last minute with my kids, telling them how much I love them and how much I would do for them.

Children are like wet cement. What is modeled for them imprints their character. —Max

You do things God does. Think. Question. Reflect. You blueprint buildings, chart sea crossings, and swallow throat lumps when your kids say their alphabet. You, like Adam, have a soul.

God doesn't get angry because he doesn't get his way. He gets angry because disobedience always results in self-destruction. What kind of father sits by and watches his child hurt himself?

Yesterday's Chelsea would have made both children change before leaving the house. But today's Chelsea served her kids chocolate chip muffins and walked them to the bus stop, leaving a trail of glitter and crumbs.

Your kids ever act like that? Tim laughed. Come on, man, I'm a pastor. My kids were perfect.

I want a thousand things for my children, and I ask without hesitation, but I want nothing more than that God would be glorified. Life is just a breath. All that will matter forever in our heavenly state is the glory that came to God through their lives and ours.

If my children think I'm genuine, no one else's opinion matters to me.

There is a generation that curses its father and does not bless its mother. Proverbs 30:11

He loved them enough to teach them anything and everything that would be of benefit, even if they didn't like it. He was willing to hurt their feelings momentarily, if it would help their hearts eternally.

All our lives God retains the strong feelings toward us that infants evoke in their parents. He never has to let us go.

I've since arrived at the conclusion that God often makes children who are going to be extra work extra cute.