Quotes about Nurture

God gave us our children so we could prepare them to become adults.

God knew that children grow and mature best in a stable, loving family, and this was one reason He gave marriage to us.

There is always the exceptional child, but the average tells us that the child is largely what the home has made him.

Take care of your soul—your inner self—by feeding on the Word of God and letting His Spirit transform you from within.

Gardens don't grow by themselves; they need to be tended and cultivated and weeded. The same is true of a marriage.

A good marriage is not "made in heaven," but on earth. Love is a fragile commodity which needs to be cultivated and nourished constantly.

When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.

There is no other love like a mother's love for her child.

Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

People, like charity, begins at home.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.