Children Quotes - Page 768

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

Today, the news is scandals, that is news, but the many children who don’t have food - that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

He looked beyond. He looked to the peoples of the Earth and saw the destruction of the family because of the lack of children. Paul VI was courageous. He was a good pastor. He warned his sheep about the wolves that were approaching, and from the heavens he blesses us today.

We need to see each child as a gift to be welcomed, cherished, and protected.

In a family, parents, grandparents and children feel at home; no one is excluded. If someone has a problem, even a serious one, even if he brought it upon himself, the rest of the family comes to his assistance; they support him. ... Should the same not happen in society?

Cars are necessary, but take a more humble one. Think of how many children die of hunger and dedicate the savings to them.

God never closes off horizons; He is never unconcerned about the lives and sufferings of His children. God never allows Himself to be outdone in generosity.

May God welcome the dead into his peace, comfort the families and convert the hearts of the violent ones, who do not even stop before children.

We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.

Fathers should speak with their children.

If in so many parts of the world there are children who have nothing to eat, that's not news, it seems normal. It cannot be this way!

Today children are disposed of because there is no food or because they are killed before being born – children are discarded. The elderly are disposed of, well, because they are useless, they do not produce, neither children nor the elderly produce; then, with more or less sophisticated systems they are slowly abandoned and now, as in this crisis it is necessary to recover some equilibrium, we are witnessing a third very painful discarding –the discarding of young people. Millions of young people… are discarded from work, are unemployed.

When a family loses its ability to dream, children don't grow, love doesn't grow and life loses strength, eventually it shuts off.

Children are to be welcomed, cherished, protected.

If your children see that you are seeking, they will seek-the finding part is up to God.

We cannot spare our children the influence of harmful values by turning off the television any more than we can keep them home forever or revamp the world before they get there. Merely keeping them in the dark is no protection and, in fact, can make them vulnerable and immature.

Whenever the child is given the notion that he needs to be entertained, learning comes almost to a halt.

Especially with our first child, we tend to take too much responsibility--both credit and blame--for everything. The more we wantto be good parents, the more we tend to see ourselves as making or breaking our children.

We do not have to get our children to learn; only to allow and encourage them in their learning. We do not have to dictate what they should learn; only to discern and respond to what it is that they are learning. Such responsiveness is at once the most educational and the most loving.

Sometimes I think that I stay young and in touch with contemporary culture because of my children's interests. I'm so lucky to be surrounded by their talent and vibrancy.

In a sense the physical connectedness that you feel with your children as a mother changes as they become independent.

Children key off their parents’ reaction more than the argument or physical discipline itself.

Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to be the same person from when he is a child until he comes to be an old man. And yet, if he's called the same, that's despite the fact that he's never made up from the same things, but is always being renewed, and losing what he had before, whether it's hair, or flesh, or bones, or blood, in fact the whole body.

I was a precocious child.

I don't know if I was funny as a child, though I always thought my parents really enjoyed listening to me sing.