Quotes about Nurture

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.

You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. —MARGARET MEAD

How many parents have lost the hearts of their children because they forgot why they had them? It was never to control them but to provide an environment in which they would flourish. How many couples have lost their marriages because they forgot why they were together? They fight against each other rather than for their love. Do we grasp and wrestle with others for their roles because we lose sight of our own?

Acting on even a twig of faith allows God to grow it.

The first thing the child of God has to do morning by morning is to obtain food for his inner man.

How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.

We must remember that life begins at home and we must also remember that the future of humanity passes through the family

Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.

So many times when we get into emergencies and the situation seems totally hopeless - it's actually a setup. God wants to do something great. He wants to demonstrate his power, so that his name will be praised in a new and greater way. The next generation will hear all about it. After all, their spiritual nurture is far more important than material things.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.