Quotes about Nurture

Train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would go. Remember, children are born with a decided bias towards evil; therefore, if you let them choose for themselves, they are certain to choose wrong.

God sees within me the ability to be the one He's perfectly designed to raise up this strong little person.

But at the heart of it all we must take our noses out of textbooks and delve into the Book to gain God's perspective of raising and educating a child. We must become more concerned with their souls than their brains. A child's smarts can help them go places in life, but the character reflected from their soul is what will determine whether or not they do anything significant once they get there.

Time grows the seeds that are planted, watered, and fertilized. Plant beauty, grow beauty. Plant thorns, grow thorns. Time will allow for either.

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.

Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

Faith is like a tender plant, rooted in Christ alone, watered by the Spirit and the Word, strengthened by the winds of adversity and the sunshine of blessing.

Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.

It is the duty of a shepherd to know the state of his flock; and unless he do so he will never feed them profitably.

Growing is a patient thing, lad," Daniel explained. "You must give all living things time to adjust to their new surroundings, their new soil, then time to grow, as well.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.