Inspirational Quotes on Children

“To train a boy in the way he should go you must go that way yourself.”

“Don't stop with telling your boy to do right. Show him how.”

“Not to walk in the straight and narrow way yourself, is to give the devil the biggest kind of a chance to get our children.”

“If you would have your children turn out well, don't turn your home into a lunch counter and lodging house.”

“Be careful, father, or while you are taking one lap around the devil's track your boy will make six.”

“Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.”

“The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.”

“It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society which they constitute or control, will go to destruction. Consequently, when a state resolves that religious instruction shall be banished from the schools and other literary institutions, it virtually resolves on self-destruction.”

“The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches.”

“You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.”

“A child of five, if properly instructed, can as truly believe and be regenerated as an adult.”

“A child who knowingly sins can savingly believe.”

“If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.”

“Those children who are of sufficient years to sin and be saved by faith have to listen to the gospel and receive it by faith. And they can do this, God the Holy Spirit helping them. There is no doubt about it, because great numbers have done it. I will not say at what age children are first capable of receiving the knowledge of Christ, but it is much earlier than some fancy.”

“Train up a child in the way he should go - but be sure you go that way yourself.”

“We are convinced that all of our race who die in infancy partake in the redemption wrought out by our Lord Jesus. Whatever some may think, we believe that the whole spirit and tone of the Word of God, as well as the nature of God Himself, lead us to believe that all who leave this world as babes are saved.”

“I rejoice to know that the souls of all infants, as soon as they die, speed their way to Paradise.”

“Any man who declares children to be born perfect never was a father. Your child without evil? You without eyes, you mean!”

“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.”

“You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of external religion, where performance is more important than reality. Fake your faith. Sneak around and pretend your spirituality . Train your children to do the same. Embrace a long list of do's and don'ts publicly but hypocritically practice them privately... yet never own up to the fact that its hypocrisy. Act one way but live another. And you can count on it - emotional and spiritual damage will occur.”