Quotes about Youth

All young people sin, and sin produces discord, repellent vibrations which rifle the concert of life until the strings are gutless and flat. The kicks soon lead to kickbacks.

In earlier periods of history, adolescence was virtually unknown... Today, the span between childhood and adulthood may extend over ten years. Deferred adulthood is synonymous with deferred responsibility.

Our magazine shelves are filled with crime and sex pulp-magazines that are being read and devoured by millions of young people... Scores are seeing each week the trash that Hollywood produces. Truly our children are "movie mad".

Young people are caught up in whatever appears to be the most bizarre. They look for truth and settle for folly. False religions and the occult are clever in reaching seekers who want to experience a rush of any kind.

Don't rebel, but give God the opportunity to change your life and help you over the problems of youth, for they are many.

Do young people have the moral stamina to carry through in case of economic depression? The real tests of the [younger] generations have not yet come, but they are on their way!

Confrontation is the special business of young people. They confront their parents, peers, society, law enforcement officers, and themselves, but primarily they confront God.

I am in favor of hanging the Ten Commandments in every schoolroom in the country so young people can know the difference between right and wrong. They don't know the difference and we're seeing the evidence of that all around us every day.

Among young people... drinking is for getting drunk. And many go on to become alcoholics.

Some [young people] are taking pills called "heaven or hell" drugs, because you're liable to experience either one.

I have heard the hollow, shallow laughter of the world. I have heard the genuine laughter of the beaming young Christian. I know there is a difference.

Compared to when I was a boy, we now live in reverse. The people are locked up in their homes at night and criminals are outside on the loose! When I was young, the criminals were locked up and the people were free to move about. That time has passed for many cities.