 ...people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or as if He did not heed their prayers. Let us ascribe to the Lord at least the same amount of attention that good parents show to the requests of their children, at least that provident and attentive love which good parents have for their children. Author: John of Kronstadt |
| What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves! Author: John Flavel
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
| A lot of times in life we're all looking for that second chance. The kids I met tonight--who I'm representing have not even had their first chance. Some of these kids--I don't know how in the world they can do it without a mother or a father. What would I have done without my mother? Author: Duane Chapman |
| After one is right with God and pleases God, the next most important thing in all the world is to be right with one's own father and mother. Author: John R. Rice |
| Remember that you are not called to produce successful, upwardly mobile, highly educated, athletically talented machines...Giving your children great opportunities is good; it is not, however, the goal of parenting. Christlikeness is. Above all, seek to raise children who look and act a lot like Jesus. Author: Chip Ingram
Source: Effective Parenting in a Defective World |
| Honor your parents and the Lord will honor you. Author: Woodrow Kroll |
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| Be careful, father, or while you are taking one lap around the devil's track your boy will make six. Author: Billy Sunday |
| If we, as parents, are not painstakingly investing in the lives of our children, we are doing them a disservice and pain will be the likely result. Author: Jonathan Falwell |
| I was cradled in the home of piety, nurtured with the tenderest care, taught the gospel from my youth up, with the holiest example of my parents, the best possible checks all around to prevent me running into sin. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: 55.352. |
| You cannot control your children, you say. Then the Lord have mercy on you! It is your business to do it, and you must do it, or else you will soon find they will control you. No one knows what judgment will come from God upon those who allow sin in children to go unrebuked. Author: Charles Spurgeon |
| Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear... Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told. Author: J.C. Ryle
Source: The Duties of Parents. |
| Parents, determine to make your children obey you, though it may cost you a lot of trouble, and cost them many tears. Let there be no questioning, and reasoning, and disputing, and delaying. When you give them a command, let them clearly see that you expect them to do it. Author: J.C. Ryle
Source: The Duties of Parents. |
