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So many individuals, children, couples, and families have been destroyed by sexual misconduct. To practice the Third Precept is to heal ourselves and heal our society. This is mindful living.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.
- Ben Carson
I feel like it's so important to get your little ones' hands dirty in the kitchen. It gives them kitchen confidence, and it makes them feel accomplished.
- Ayesha Curry
In this generation, we parents have gone out of our way to protect our children from pain and to see that they succeed. The problem with this approach is that the kids don't learn wisdom, and they don't learn decision-making skills. I believe we learn more from failure than success, but when parents keep kids from failure, our children inevitably end up lacking wisdom.
- Gary Thomas
But bit by bit as I got to know Yugoslavia better, I became aware of the slow wearing-down process the government was exerting on Christians. The effort seemed to be centered on the children. Leave the old folks alone, but wean the young people away from the church.
- Brother Andrew
Plan International protects the rights of children and young women, and I'm an ambassador for the 'Because I Am a Girl' campaign.
- Toni Garrn
Gay couples cannot have children. All they can do is recruit your child.
- Franklin Graham
In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.
- Charles Stanley
God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
- Desmond Tutu
America is, is no longer, uh, what it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was, uh, and I say to myself, uh, I don't want that future, uh, for my children.
- Barack Obama
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead
The lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths every single day, a silent tsunami that happens every week.
- Shane Claiborne