Quotes about Guidance

It is important for all parents to examine the system of belief that shapes their moment-by-moment interactions with their children.

He knows that parents who admit that they are inadequate and run to God make the best parents.

Parenting is about being God's ambassadors in the lives of our children.

Parenting is about being used of God to bring your children to that wholesome and heart-changing place of personal hopelessness. This is not a process of condemnation, but of patient and loving rescue.

We realize that God has us just where we need to be so that his purposes for us and his promises to us may come to pass.

Since God writes your story, he knows what you're facing and exactly what grace you'll need to live his way.

This means that every moment of discipline and correction must be accompanied with instruction.

so much of what drives our responses to our kids is an unannounced set of laws that are more about what we want for ourselves and our lives than what God wants for and from our children. In our allegiance to our law, we end up breaking God's law in our interactions with our children. In this way we are just like our children: people who need to be rescued from ourselves. You

Prayer is surrender to the reality that there is wisdom greater than ours. Prayer confronts us with the fact that we are not as smart as we tend to think we are. It reminds us that there is so much we don't know or understand. It tells us that life is not found in our limited understanding, but in surrendering our lives to the care of the One whose understanding spans from before origin to beyond destiny and includes everything in between.

Children begin to lose respect for the parent who is content with a "do what I say and not as I do" relationship to children.

Paul's model of parenting is distinctly redemptive, but when parents forget that moments of difficulty are moments of redemption, they stand in the way of what the Lord is doing.

You can't buy wisdom. You can't get it by hard work or lots of experience. No, wisdom is the result of rescue and relationship. To be wise, you first need to be rescued from you. You need to be given a new heart, one that is needy, humble, seeking, and ready to get from above what you can't find on this earth. And then you need to be brought into a relationship with the One who is wisdom.