Children Quotes - Page 11

God never abandons His children.

Children who have faith have distinctly different characteristics from those who don't. In fact, one of the main manifestations of a person with strong faith is the ability to give - not just in terms of money or possessions, but also time, love, and encouragement.

The best way to encourage your children is to let them know you are praying for them.

Because Christ doesn’t scream to get our attention, we have to find places and times that are quiet. We can look for Him throughout the day in a smile or the sunlight through a cloud. He’s there in a baby’s face - every time in a baby’s face.

God sends little children to speak and act for him. In their simplicity and naivety they say and do things that we adults never would, but which can reveal deep truths about the way the world should be, if we only would have ears to hear and eyes to see...

Even the most powerful enemies who threaten or oppress God’s children will one day fall.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

There are good books which are only for adults.
There are no good books which are only for children.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist.

Books are like ice cream; there is a flavor for everyone!

Never go down to the darkest room. Stay far away from the rotting coffin. If you want to live through the night, let the devil sleep.

There are two things that grant a bit of immortality: books and children

It’s a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit. So give kids the best of who you are. That’s the most you can ever do.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

As a children’s minister, I always believed that I was an evangelist, and at the end of the book, there’s a simple prayer that, whoever’s reading the book could accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior