Quotes about Children

People in China say: 'If you love your children, send them to New York. If you hate your children, also send them to New York.

More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.

He knew that behind the skin of this world, there was another. And in that world the children were laughing.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find.' If you know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give to those who ask him!" My mind filled with

The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.

We will never come to the place of being holy enough for God to hear our prayer. Rather, we stand before the Lord pure, transparent and righteous because it is a gift He has given us through His Son. It is not something we can earn. We are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. It is nothing we attain. It is only by grace that we are children of God.

I'm pretty intentional about being highly invested in my kids' lives.

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Children contrast with the rich man simply because there is no question of their having yet been able to merit anything. Jesus' point is, there is nothing that any of us can do to inherit the kingdom. We must simply receive it like little children. And little children haven't done anything.

If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own.

What Jesus longs to see in radical disciples is what he saw in little children: a spirit of sheer receptivity, utter dependence, and radical reliance on the power and mercy and grace of God mediated through the Spirit of Christ. He said, "Apart from me you can do nothing" (John 15:5).