Quotes about Children

America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.

Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries.

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

If someone must be hurt, if it ever becomes necessary to bear pains, weather strong winds, or withstand trials or opposition, let it be adults and not children.

Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.

The Lord has given gifts to us as well, which, like Israel's of old, are also assignments: children, ministries, churches, cities, nations and many other things.

The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.

Folly is as often justified of her children as wisdom.

The visitor (what Scripture calls the "foreigner" or "alien") comes first. The visitor who returns comes next. The less popular, the introverts, the marginalized, or those sitting alone come next. Then come the children. Jesus singles them out as examples of the marginalized. "Hi, _______" is offered to as many people as possible, which doesn't have to be accompanied by a hug or a handshake.

Since the desires for power and control are in every heart, you don't have to look overseas for lawless brutality. It happens every day between parents and children, boyfriends and girlfriends, husbands and wives. Where there is injustice, shame will be part of its fallout.

Fear has given birth to extreme parenting. It looks like love, but it is love mingled with fear.