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Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.
- Psalm 22:9
At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For three months he was nurtured in his father’s house.
- Acts 7:20
From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
- 2 Timothy 3:15
For everyone who lives on milk is still an infant, inexperienced in the message of righteousness.
- Hebrews 5:13
DOMBEY sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great armchair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new.
- Charles Dickens
In the mother's smile, it dawns on him that there is a world into which he is accepted and in which he is welcome, and it is in this primordial experience that he becomes aware of himself for the first time.
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
- John Updike
The world is yet in its infancy; the gracious designs of God are yet hardly developed. Glorious things are spoken of Zion, the city of our God. She is yet to triumph and become the joy and glory of the whole earth.
- Adoniram Judson
Maturity requires the integration, not the amputation, of what we have received through our conception and birth, our infancy and schooling.
- Eugene Peterson
Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy.
- Samuel Rutherford
Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.
- St. Augustine
I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself; and believe much on the strength of weak females.
- St. Augustine