Quotes about Innocence

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.

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

Ah, babies! They're more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.

Stay a child while you can be a child.

No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.

Only children believe they're capable of everything.

After Jesus, the next group of people with the most innocent blood are the millions of unborn babies who were aborted with never even a chance at life, much less the chance to make a choice between good or evil. Leviticus 17:11 says that life is in the blood. And innocent shed blood cries out to God. What kind of cry do you think the blood of 44 million innocent babies aborted in the womb makes? What does that sound like to God?

Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.

The blood that ran so close to her fair skin might have been a preserving fluid rather than a ravaging element; yet her look of indestructible youthfulness made her seem neither hard nor dull, but only primitive and pure.

Our starting place was always original goodness,10 not original sin. This