Train up a child in the way he should go – but be sure you go that way yourself.
– Charles Spurgeon
Children | Examples
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
– Chuck Swindoll
Children
If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.
– Charles Spurgeon
Children
Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.
– Dwight L. Moody
Children | Prayer
Children take more notice of what their parents do, than what they say. Actions speak louder than words.
– William Tiptaft
Children | Examples
To train a boy in the way he should go you must go that way yourself.
– Billy Sunday
Examples | Children
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?
– G.K. Chesterton
Christmas | Children
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?
– Dwight L. Moody
Satan | Children
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
– George Macdonald
Children | Youth
Be careful, father, or while you are taking one lap around the devil’s track your boy will make six.
– Billy Sunday
Parents | Children
If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in Heaven?
– Hosea Ballou
Children | Gratitude | Parents
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child’s home.
– William Temple
Children | Home
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
– Billy Graham
Children | Parents
Men are never manlier than when they are tender with their children – whether holding a baby in their arms, loving their grade-schooler, or hugging their teenager or adult children.
– R. Kent Hughes
Men | Children
Children are very quick observers; very quick in seeing through some kinds of hypocrisy, very quick in finding out what you really think and feel, very quick in adopting all your ways and opinions. You will often discover that, as the father is, so is the son.
– J. C. Ryle
Children
Children can tell you what Channel 7 says, but not what Matthew 7 says.
– Leonard Ravenhill
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.
– Chuck Swindoll
Children | Legalism
When our children see us clinging to the promises of God, they will grow up trusting in His goodness. If we fail as adults in praying for and praying with the next generation, then they will become spiritually unsure.
– Michael Youssef
Examples | Children
Ye have lost a child; nay, she is not lost to you, who is found in Christ; she is not sent away, but only sent before; like unto a star which, going out of sight, does not die and vanish, but shines in another hemisphere.
– Samuel Rutherford
Children | Death
The dog was created especially for children. He is a god of frolic.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Children | Animals
Unless we are firmly anchored in the Rock of Ages, unless we trust in the living God, unless we are vigilant in prayer and fellowship with God, the enemy will be able to vanquish our children.
– Michael Youssef
Faithful | Children
A man must talk to God about his children before he talks to his children about God.
– Ed Cole
Children
The mother’s heart is the child’s classroom.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Mothers | Children
Let thy child’s first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.
– Thomas Fuller
Children | Obedience
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.
– Daniel Webster
Children | Self-control | Passion
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!
– Hannah More
Children | Youth | Joy
The so-called innocence of children is more a matter of weakness of limb, than purity of heart.
– Augustine
Children
If you need a remote control for your television set, don’t have children; the chances of your controlling anything else in life are remote.
– Jerry Falwell
Children
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
– Hannah More
Children | Idleness
Controlled anger against sin and genuine love may dwell in the same heart at the same time and be directed toward the same person. It is legitimate for us to be angry with our children over genuine disobedience. At the same time, we must not express that anger in sinful ways (yelling, screaming, nastiness, irritation, etc.) but in loving ways for the good of our children.
– Wayne Mack
Anger | Children
Imagine if we started raising generations of children who stood uncompromisingly on the Word of God, knew how to defend the Christian faith, could answer the skeptical questions of this age, and had a fervor to share the gospel from the authority of God’s Word with whomever they met! This could change the world.
– Ken Ham
Scripture | Children | Theology
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.
– Charles Spurgeon
Children | Death
If we would amend the world we should mend ourselves; and teach our children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.
– William Penn
Children
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.
– Francois Fenelon
Children | Hypocrisy
Don’t stop with telling your boy to do right. Show him how.
– Billy Sunday
Examples | Children
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.
– Charles Spurgeon
Children | Examples
Any man who declares children to be born perfect never was a father. Your child without evil? You without eyes, you mean!
– Charles Spurgeon
Fathers | Children
A child who knowingly sins can savingly believe.
– Charles Spurgeon
Children | Believing
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
– John Quincy Adams
Family | Children
Children do not find it difficult or complicated to talk to their parents, nor do they feel embarrassed to bring the simplest need to their attention. Neither should we hesitate to bring the simplest requests confidently to the Father.
– Richard J. Foster
Children
Directionless teens walk the night streets where the only people who intervene are those with a lust to further exploit their loneliness.
– RM Harrington
Purpose | Children
Little pitchers have wide ears.
– George Herbert
Children
Children’s conscientiousness in lessons, and fairness in playing games, and command of temper, may yield as true a proof of sanctification begun, as do the integrity of the adult, and his firm adherence to principle in matter of merchandise.
– Andrew Bonar
Children | Sanctification
We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we’ve done a great job of teaching self-esteem!
– Judge Roy Moore
Children | Self-esteem
Good counsels observed, are chains to grace, which, neglected, prove halters to strange, undutiful children.
– Thomas Fuller
Children
A child of five, if properly instructed, can as truly believe and be regenerated as an adult.
– Charles Spurgeon
Children | Salvation
Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leaven them alone and they will soon be great.
– J. C. Ryle
Children
The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.
– Isaac Watts
Children | Education
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.
– C.S. Lewis
Children | Criticism
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.
– Augustine
Children | Creation
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.
– Charles Hodge
The Gospel | Children
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.
– Charles Hodge
Children | Education
When we let our children fly as arrows, we understand that we have been chosen by God to be the bow in their lives and point them in the right direction as we lead them to Jesus.
– Crystal McDowell
Children
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.
– C.S. Lewis
Children | Attitude
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?
– Desiderius Erasmus
Children | Age | Enemies
He has seen but little of life who does not discern everywhere the effect of early education on men’s opinions and habits of thinking. Children bring out of the nursery that which displays itself throughout their lives.
– Richard Cecil
Children | Life | Education
Though he is all grown up that small boy still haunts my dreams.
– Judy Harrell
Children
There is a practical error very common among God’s people. All of them profess to believe that the Holy Spirit may convert souls at any age, and that conversion cannot take place too soon; while yet they do not look for the conversion of children with the same lively faith that they manifest in asking and expecting the Holy Spirit to change those who are of riper years.
– Andrew Bonar
Children | Conversion
I’m pro-life. I’ll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential.
– Sarah Palin
Abortion | Children | The Future
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Children
In times of struggle and failure, we need to do more than pronounce judgment on what’s wrong and enforce punishment. We need to talk, discuss, question, evaluate, engage, and interact with our teenagers, hoping that God will use these moments of opportunity to open their eyes a little more to who they really are and to their constant need for Christ.
– Paul David Tripp
Struggles | Children
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.
– Frederick Buechner
Discretion | Children
Children, obey. Why does the apostle use the word obey instead of honor, which has a greater extent of meaning? It is because obedience is the evidence of that honor which children owe to their parents, and is therefore more earnestly enforced.
– John Calvin
Children | Obedience
Little children are God’s ongoing witness of His kingdom: a perpetual reminder of what it means to belong to the father. Children are an unspoken sermon in every home for simplicity, joy, and humility of that which makes the world worth living in. They remind us what it means to be a real Christian.
– Winkie Pratney
Children
The soul is healed by being with children.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
Children | Healing
Take heed thou makest not the least child thine enemy by offering wrong to him; God will right the wicked even upon the saint.
– William Gurnall
Children | Enemies
Disobedient children, if preserved from the gallows, are reserved for the rack, to be tortured by their own posterity. One complaining, that never father had so undutiful a child as he had, yes, said his son, with less grace than truth, my grandfather had.
– Thomas Fuller
Children
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Children | Hatred | Laughter
Though “the words of the wise be as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies,” yet their examples are the hammer to drive them in to take the deeper hold. A father that whipped his son for swearing, and swore himself whilst he whipped him, did more harm by his example than good by his correction.
– Thomas Fuller
Hypocrisy | Examples | Children
Your children should love the Lord, work hard, and experience the joy of trusting God. More important than leaving your children an inheritance is leaving them a spiritual heritage. If you left your children money they didn’t need, and if they were thinking correctly, wouldn’t they give it to God anyway? Then why not give it to God yourself, since He entrusted it to you?
– Randy Alcorn
Children | Finances
Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.
– G.K. Chesterton
Children | Justice
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
– Ronald Reagan
Death | Children | Sin
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.
– Francois Fenelon
Children | Liberty
If you would have your children turn out well, don’t turn your home into a lunch counter and lodging house.
– Billy Sunday
Home | Children
Life is but one continual course of instruction, The hand of the parent writes on the heart of the child the first faint characters which time deepens into strength so that nothing can efface them.
– Assorted Authors
Education | Children | Parents
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.
– Charles Spurgeon
Children | Salvation
Children ought to be dealt with, in regard to the duty of accepting Christ, as closely and seriously as older people… Personal dealing is required; a dealing with them one by one.
– Andrew Bonar
Children | Conversion
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
– Assorted Authors
Children | Virtue
You tell your children to clean their room, not because you cannot stand it any longer, or because you said to. Love teaches them that possessions are gifts from God that should be gratefully received and taken care of.
– Jerry Falwell
Children | Gifts
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
– Henry Ward Beecher
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.
– Clovis G. Chappell
Children
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
– Ronald Reagan
Abortion | Children | Sin
The happiest and holiest children in the world are the children whose fathers succeed in winning both their tender affection and their reverential and loving fear. And they are the children who will come to understand most easily the mystery of the fatherhood of God.
– John Piper
Children
If you think the sound of your children making noise troubles you, look out when they’re deadly silent because that’s when real trouble is brewing.
– Jerry Falwell
Children
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.
– Cornelius Plantinga
Children
There are illegitimate parents, but I don’t believe there are any illegitimate children.
– Rick Warren
Children | Parents
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.
– Billy Sunday
Examples | Children
Becoming mature Christians will require the sovereign work of God. Only God can save and sanctify. Still, God uses men and means. Certainly we as parents must seek to bring our children to Jesus Christ for salvation. But salvation is not the end of the journey. It is only the beginning. The destination toward which we are headed with our children is nothing less than maturity in Christ.
– Wayne Mack
Children | Salvation
Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
– G.K. Chesterton
Children | Youth
If you neglect to instruct (your children) in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear, and lie; if ground be uncultivated, weeds will spring.
– John Flavel
Children | Satan