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Quotes About Children

The Word of God always speaks of two great divisions of mankind, and only two. It speaks of the living and the dead in sin, the believer and the unbeliever, the converted and the unconverted, the travelers in the narrow way and the travelers in the broad, the wise and the foolish, the children of God and the children of the devil.
~ J.C. Ryle
Don't fear withholding anything from your child that you think will do him harm, whatever his own wishes may be.
~ J.C. Ryle
God says expressly, Train up a child in the way he should go, and He never gave a command that He did not give man grace to perform.
~ J.C. Ryle
Let us worship on, pray on, praise on, and read on. Let us contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints, and resist manfully every effort to spoil Scriptural worship. Let us strive earnestly to hand down the light of Gospel worship to our children's children. Yet a little time and He that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Blessed in that day will be those, and those only, who are found true worshippers, "worshippers in spirit and truth!
~ J.C. Ryle
This is the thought that should be uppermost on your mind in all you do for your children. In every step you take for them – in every plan, scheme, and arrangement that concerns them – do not leave out that mighty question, "How will this affect their souls?
~ J.C. Ryle
the vast majority of children are not trained in the way they should go, for when they reach adulthood, they do not walk with God.
~ J.C. Ryle
Train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would go. Remember, children are born with a decided bias towards evil; therefore, if you let them choose for themselves, they are certain to choose wrong.
~ J.C. Ryle
All of this is one of God's merciful arrangements. He gives your children a mind that will receive impressions like moldable moist clay. He gives them a disposition at the beginning of life to believe what you tell them, to take for granted what you advise them, and to trust your word rather than a stranger's. In short, He gives you a golden opportunity of doing them good. See that the opportunity is not neglected and thrown away. Once it slips away, it is gone forever.
~ J.C. Ryle
If people have no likeness to the Father in heaven, it is pointless to talk of their being His children.
~ J.C. Ryle
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. … You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you." – Kahlil Gibran, "On Children" from The Prophet
~ Unknown
The trees had stripped down to their black bones and had heaped leaves in drifts against hedges and walls. Children played amongst them, tossing armfuls into the air, screaming in and out like swimmers at the sea's edge.
~ Unknown
Whenever a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there's a little fairy somewhere that falls right down dead.
~ J.M. Barrie
My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
~ Jack Black
Job. 21.19 You say that God punishes children for the sins of their father. God does no such thing. Only in the Judgment will the wicked fully reap what they have sown.
~ Unknown
Whoever welcomes children in my name welcomes me. Mark 9:37 My
~ Jack Canfield
Children often have imaginary playmates. I suspect that half of them are really their guardian angels. -Eileen Elias Freeman, The Angels' Little Instruction Book
~ Jack Canfield
College Psychology 101 explained that children cannot learn when they are hungry, smelly or teased.
~ Jack Canfield
When the men and women on both sides love their children more than they hate their enemies, then maybe this can stop.
~ Unknown
let your kids experience as much microbial diversity as you can find. Get them outside, let them interact with animals, allow them to play in the dirt, rivers, streams, ocean. Don't sterilize everything they are going to touch or put into their mouth. A great example of this is the pacifier that falls on the ground. Parents who sterilize the binky run the risk of increasing the likelihood that their child will develop food sensitivities later in life.
~ Jack Gilbert
To the best of our knowledge, there's no evidence that GMOs (genetically modified organisms that have been designed or manipulated to produce certain characteristics) can affect your child's microbiome in any way.
~ Jack Gilbert
Mosquitos prefer to bite children rather than adults - and prefer blondes to brunettes! No-one knows why.
~ Jack Goldstein
sometimes abandons its parents and wanders into another nearby nest to be fed by a new family! Mosquitos prefer to bite children rather
~ Jack Goldstein
Mosquitos prefer to bite children rather than adults
~ Jack Goldstein
Mosquitos prefer to bite children rather than adults - and prefer blondes to brunettes!
~ Jack Goldstein