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With the ability to produce more goods than people need, consumer capitalism has to make children into consumers earlier and keep them at it longer. Hence contemporary America, a culture of perennial adolescents.
- Os Guinness
Children who are not loved themselves often find it difficult to love others.
- Patricia St. John
The great battle of parenting is not the battle of behavior; it's the battle for what kind of awe will rule children's hearts.
- Paul David Tripp
Parents, if your eyes ever see or your ears ever hear the sin and weakness of your children, it's never an accident, it's never a hassle, it's never an interruption; it's always grace. God loves your children and because he does, he has placed them in a family of faith so that you can be his tool of convicting, forgiving, and transforming grace.
- Paul David Tripp
As a parent you are never, ever dealing just with the words and actions of your children. You are always also dealing with the thing that controls their words and behavior: the heart.
- Paul David Tripp
Your job is be God's tool for the purpose of forming the image of God's Son in your children.
- Paul David Tripp
Parenting is not first about what we want for our children or from our children, but about what god in grace has planned to do through us in our children. to lose sight of this is to end up with a relationship with our children that at the foundational level is neither Christian nor true parenting because it has become more about our will and our way than about the will and way of our Sovereign Savior King.
- Paul David Tripp
If God's plan really is to make his invisible grace visible by sending parents of grace to give grace to children who desperately need grace, then I am called not just to preach that grace but to live and model it for my children every day.
- Paul David Tripp
successful parenting is not about achieving goals (that you have no power to produce) but about being a usable and faithful tool in the hands of the One who alone is able to produce good things in your children.
- Paul David Tripp
It is important for all parents to examine the system of belief that shapes their moment-by-moment interactions with their children.
- Paul David Tripp
God didn't give you your children to build your reputation but to publicly proclaim his.
- Paul David Tripp
Parenting is about being God's ambassadors in the lives of our children.
- Paul David Tripp