Quotes About Children

God didn't give you your children to build your reputation but to publicly proclaim his.

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.

You could say that the advice here is to connect everything you require of your children in behavior and belief to the story of redemption.

in these moments of challenge the people of God would panic because they were identity amnesiacs. They would forget who they were as the children of God and they would forget who God is in all his almighty power and glory.

Sadly, rather than growing in a sense of need for and submission to the authority that God has placed in their lives, many children become emotional weathermen. They have come to understand that the rules of the house tend to change with the emotion of the parent who is present.

And they understand that if their children grow and mature in life and godliness, they become not so much their trophies, but trophies of the Savior that they have sought to serve. For them, it's God who does the work and God who gets the glory; they are just gratified that they were able to be the tools that God used.

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

God was teaching Israel that they must no longer look at life from the vantage point of human wisdom and strength because they were now the children of the Lord almighty. Their world of weakness and limits had been invaded by One of awesome grace and glory.

It is more natural for your children to deny God's existence than it is for them to humbly recognize it and submit to his holy demands on their

No hay función más importante para un padre que esta: paciente y amorosamente conducir a nuestros hijos al punto en que ellos también clamen a Dios por misericordia.

parenting is not first about what we want for our children or from our children, but about what God in grace has planned to do through us in our children.

But God has not called us to erect a little family monastery. Please read carefully what I am going to write next. Monastic parenting will not deliver your children from moral danger.

God's saving grace ignites in the hearts of all his children a radical shift in ambition. Where once our thoughts, desires, words, and actions were motivated and directed by our ambition to achieve our definition of personal happiness, by grace they are now shaped by our ambition for the kingdom of God to achieve all God has designed for it to achieve. Where once we were ambitious for what we want, we now are ambitious to do the will of God.

We need to do everything we can to put the glory of God and his grace before our children so that the awe of God would rule over their hearts.

You could argue that the chief reason God put parents in children's lives is so that they would know him.

Good parenting, which does what God intends it to do, begins with this radical and humbling recognition that our children don't actually belong to us. Rather, every child in every home, everywhere on the globe, belongs to the One who created him or her. Children are God's possession (see Ps. 127:3) for his purpose.

I think we would be shocked if we knew how many homes of parents who love to sing of God's grace on Sunday completely forget that grace as they parent their children the rest of the week. But without the intervention of God's grace, your children will not be who they are supposed to be or do what they are supposed to do.

Principle: Your children need God's law, but you cannot ask the law to do what only grace can accomplish.

It means that as parents we need to daily remind ourselves that we're called to rescue our children again and again, and we should not resent those moments when that rescue is necessary.

I've already written in this book, rules don't have the power to deliver your children from this condition, but the powerful, transforming grace of God does.

tu Dios tiene un increíble poder; un poder distintivo. Él conoce a Su pueblo, conoce dónde está, conoce lo que necesitan y cuándo lo necesitan, conoce de qué debe ser liberado y qué debe ser controlado para que Su voluntad sea hecha. Él siempre le da a Sus hijos el poder que necesitan.

For Buddhists, to experience Awakening is to experience the interconnectedness that makes us all one. For Christians, to experience the Divine as Love is to experience the source that makes us all "children of God" and therefore brothers and sisters to one another.

But if salvation is a matter of revealing or embodying the deepest and already existing truth about ourselves and the world – in Christian vocabulary, that we are already children of the Divine called to wake up to and live our oneness with the Spirit – then it is indeed possible that there be other teachers and revealers who have seen and taught other aspects of the Mystery of who we are.