Quotes about Children

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.

I have to be so thankful. I have two kids, my beautiful wife, I'm just blown away at God's grace and God's faithfulness.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'

The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief difference between the Christian and the secular artist--the purpose of the work, be it story or music or painting, is to further the coming of the kingdom, to make us aware of our status as children of God, and to turn our feet toward home.

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

I was at the annual meeting of a state library association a few years later, when the children were in the process of leaving the nest, and one of the librarians asked me, What do you think you and Hugh have done which was the best for your children? I answered immediately and without thinking, We love each other.

The artist, if he is not to forget how to listen, must retain the visionwhich includes angels and dragons and unicorns, and all the lovely creatures which our world would put in a bos marked, 'Children Only.

But I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the reader ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.

So I know, with a sense of responsibility that hits me with a cold fist in the pit of my stomach, that what I am is going to make more difference to my own children and those I talk to and teach than anything I tell them.

But I wanted to do it for you," Mr. Murry said. "That's what every parent wants.

We must not take from our children—or ourselves—the truth that is in the world of the imagination.

The purpose of the story or music or painting, is to further the coming of the kingdom, to make us aware of our status as children of God, and to turn our feet towards home.