And he said: “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 18:3)
Children Quotes
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.
But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. (Matthew 18:6)
Whenever we strike a child, or speak harshly to it for no reason, or do anything to sap it of its enthusiasm for life, we betray our fundamental mission as human beings, which is to leave the universe better organized than we found it.
Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. (Mark 10:14)
The more Boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being Good Parents – because they have a Tame Child-creature in their house.
I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it. (Luke 18:17)
Biologically, adults produce children. Spiritually, children produce adults. Most of us do not grow up until we have helped children do so. Thus do the generations form a braided cord.
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. (Colossians 3:20-21)
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
