Quotes about Children
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
— Desmond Tutu
Parents should plant deeply the seed of the work ethic into the hearts and habits of their children.
— Joseph Wirthlin
I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.
— Alice Walker
Rather than seeking to stem the tide, our educators, politicians, and judges aid the advance of godlessness. This cannot continue if our children and grandchildren are to live in a country that still recognises God and upholds religious liberty.
— Franklin Graham
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
— St. Augustine
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.
— Saint Francis Xavier
Jesus's disciples have faith, but their worry proves the weakness of their faith. Great faith comes not by looking inward, to the believing self, but by looking upward, to God. By faith we stop thinking like pagans, filled with anxiety about food and clothing. Pagans, thinking like orphans, worry. Disciples, thinking like children, relax.
— Sam Storms
There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.
— Marianne Williamson
There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.
— Marianne Williamson
are meant to shine. Look at small children. They're all so unique before they start trying to be
— Marianne Williamson
Embracing joy heals depression. Then we become the ones who teach the meaning of joy to our children, as well as allowing them to teach it to us.
— Marianne Williamson
Our children are not extensions of ourselves. We did not create them; God did. We are here to supervise their development, not dictate their reality. They are their own beings.
— Marianne Williamson