Quotes About Nurturing

nurturing and teaching the infant Savior of the world.

I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here. They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.

She never said, "No, don't buy that trash," or "Pick a real book." She knew they were all real books. This is how great a librarian she was. And how great a mom.

Sometimes, God is going to have you sow a seed. Sometimes, God is going to have you water a seed that someone else sows. Sometimes, God is going to have you reap where others have sowed and watered.

Too often, parents force their kids into becoming something they want them to become rather than trying unpack the treasure chest God wants them to become.

Raising children should mean helping them to become what they already are in God's eyes.

The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.

Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers

This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image.

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.

God bless little children while they're still too young to hate.

Daughters of God know that it is the nurturing nature of women that can bring everlasting blessings, and they live to cultivate this divine attribute.

God is the food our spirits were designed to feed on.

Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.

Mothers reflect God's loving presence on earth.

Thank God for your mother.

I believe in the Motherhood of God.

I have a vision of the whole Church getting nearer to God by abiding by the precepts of the Book of Mormon.

God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

To the world, most people are not remembered for being great parents. To the child, without parents, nothing great would have been put into the world.

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.