children

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

—Sigmund Freud

When you are a child of God, you will love the things that God loves. What you once hated you will love, and what you once loved, you will hate.

—D. L. Moody

Our strength will fail us. The strength of our friends will fail us. If we trust in our money it will take wings and fly away. If we trust in the love of our friends, they will leave us. A mother may forget her child, but God will never forget us.

—D. L. Moody

There is not a sigh goes up to Him but that He hears it. He hears His children when they cry.

—D. L. Moody

The pope, by his lies, thoroughly proves himself the most dear child of the devil, the author and founder of all lies!

Henry Greenwood

All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong; he will be good. He who could do everything would never do harm.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You cannot stand still; you must either rise or fall; rise higher or fail lower. Therefore the voice of God to the children of Israel, to the children of God, is, Go forward!

—John Wesley

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

—Charles Dickens

Sooner shall a tender mother sit inattentive to her crying infant than Jesus be an unconcerned spectator of his suffering children.

—John Newton

To think of parting with peace, health, liberty, relations, wives, children; it is offensive, heavy, and grievous to the best of the saints: but their souls cannot bear the thoughts of parting with Jesus Christ; such a thought is cruel as the grave.

—John Owen

To think of parting with peace, health, liberty, relations, wives, children; it is offensive, heavy, and grievous to the best of the saints: but their souls cannot bear the thoughts of parting with Jesus Christ; such a thought is cruel as the grave.

—John Owen

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

—Heraclitus

“Train up a child in the way he should go—but be sure you go that way yourself.”

Charles Spurgeon

If humanity was able to learn by direct observation of children, I could have spared myself the trouble to write this book.

—Sigmund Freud

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

—Sun Tzu

Remember what our LORD hath said: ‘Whosoever receiveth not the kingdom of GOD, as a little child, shall in no-wise enter therein.’

—George Whitefield

Those persons who have God for their Father have a Father who loves them much more than any earthly parent loves his child.

—Jonathan Edwards

Nothing more habitually reconciles a child of God to the thought of death than the wearisomeness of…warfare with sin and temptation.

—John Newton

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!

—John Locke

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!

—John Locke

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

—John Locke