Inspirational Quotes on Children

“We will never bring in the Kingdom by simply seeking to save an adult generation. We must give God a chance at the children or the cause of righteousness is going to be defeated. But if we will save the child, we will surely save the world.”

“We know the excitement of getting a present - we love to unwrap it to see what is inside. So it is with our children they are gifts we unwrap for years as we discover the unique characters God has made them.”

“Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.”

“It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?”

“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.”

“Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?”

“A man must talk to God about his children before he talks to his children about God.”

“Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.”

“Beware of fatiguing them by ill-judged exactness. If virtue offers itself to the child under a melancholy and constrained aspect, while liberty and license present themselves under an agreeable form, all is lost, and your labor is in vain.”

“You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.”

“The soul is healed by being with children.”

“Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.”

“Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.”

“When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?”

“Little pitchers have wide ears.”

“When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.”

“Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.”

“Oh, the joy of young ideas painted on the mind, in the warm, glowing colors fancy spreads on objects not yet known, when all is new and all is lovely!”

“Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.”

“Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.”