Quotes about Influence

Many parents preach to their children but do not set good examples. Parents want the children to do as they say, not as they do.

My father-in-law . . . was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death.

Many times it takes just one member of a family to initiate the action to bring a family back together again.

Your own family circle knows whether Christ lives in you and through you.

Our lives speak loudly to those around us, especially the children in our home.

One of life's mysteries is why two children growing up in the same home sometimes take radically different paths—one following Christ, the other rebellious and scornful. Yet it happens.

Children will learn far more by watching than by just listening.

You can put a public school and university in the middle of every block of every city in America—but you will never keep America from rotting morally by mere intellectual education.

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

The Bible says a great deal about entire families coming to Christ. Rahab the harlot . . . the Philippian jailer . . . and Cornelius, the Roman centurion. That could be true in your family too. You may be the one who could lead your family to Christ.

Consistency, constancy, and undeviating diligence to maintain Christian character are a must if the older generation is to command respect, or even a hearing, from the young.

The television, iPod, and Internet have trespassed upon the innocence of America's children, while preoccupied mothers and dispassionate fathers stare aghast wondering what went wrong. They don't stop to think of their own contributions to the persuasions influencing their children. After all, where do kids as young as elementary age get money to rent rock videos and the latest rap DVDs?