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Principle 8: Authority

"Your children must learn early that they have been born into a world of authority and they are not it." (113)

"What God has called you to do is to daily confront your children with how beautiful, helpful, and patient God's authority is."

So are the Amazon devs ever going to give Goodreads some love? Do we really still have to use html in our reviews? And will notifications ever work properly? So much potential. (Sorry I'm quarantined and have time to gripe)

I love Goodreads this time of year. Everyone's like, "I like books. You like books. I like that you like books. You like that I like books. Let's read lots of books."

“Our appetite for worldly spectacles gives us a sense of the expanse inside our hearts for divine spectacles.”

Key Quotes: Ch 4 (On Our Inability)
- "God has given you authority for the work of change, but has not granted you the power to make that change happen. (61)"
- (on fear as a parenting tactic) "Having a child who is afraid to cross you is profoundly different from having a child who is motivated by an internal desire to do what is right and a knowledge that he needs God's help in order to do it." (64)

Chapter 3: Law
- Key Quotes from
- "As a parent you will rely on something to create change in your children" (48)
- "One of the most dangerous things in your child's life is his blindness to the depth of his spiritual need." (50)
- "If we want our children to be sad in the face of the sin of their hearts and hands, we must mourn our sin as parents as well." (57)

Quotes from ch. 2
- "God doesn't call people to be parents because they are able... God did not create human beings to be independently able; he designed us to be dependent." (35)
- "I am more like my children than unlike them." (39)
- (on parenting as sanctification) "In every moment as you are parenting your children, the heavenly Father is parenting you." (41)
- "Regret tends to forget the cross..." (43)

"your kids will never be what they're supposed to be or do if they lack God-consciousness." (30)

This book is fantastic. But it.