Hopeful Parenting Quotes

“A baby is a small member of the home that makes love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, the bank roll smaller, the home happier, the clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for. —Laurens van der Post and Jane Taylor”
― David Jeremiah, Hopeful Parenting: Encouragement for Raising Kids Who Love God

“No matter what else you’re involved in, regardless of what else you’re doing, make your children a high priority. God has given you an amazing privilege! Say no to other things before you say no to your kids.”
― David Jeremiah, Hopeful Parenting: Encouragement for Raising Kids Who Love God

“One person can make a difference. A huge difference. Consider what a solitary individual may accomplish: In 1645 one vote gave Oliver Cromwell control of England. In 1649 one vote cost Charles I of England his life, causing him to be executed. In 1776 one vote gave America the English language instead of the German language. In 1839 one vote elected Mark Morgan governor of Massachusetts. In 1845 one vote brought Texas into the Union. In 1868 one vote saved President Johnson from impeachment. In 1875 one vote changed France from a monarchy to a republic. In 1876 one vote gave Rutherford B. Hayes the United States presidency. In 1923 one vote gave Adolf Hitler control of the Nazi party. In 1941 one vote saved the Selective Service Agency just”
― David Jeremiah, Hopeful Parenting: Encouragement for Raising Kids Who Love God

“The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.”
― David Jeremiah, Hopeful Parenting: Encouragement for Raising Kids Who Love God

“Our children are too precious and their time with us too short for us to neglect the unspeakable privilege we have in loving them, nurturing them, shaping them, and preparing them to step out into the wide world.”
― David Jeremiah, Hopeful Parenting: Encouragement for Raising Kids Who Love God

“If you do not influence them, someone else will. If you are not shaping their values, others will do it for you. The issue is not, Will my child be influenced? The issue is, Who will be that influence? Most parents I know prefer to wield the greatest influence in the lives of their children. They wisely want to make the major investment in their children’s lives so that the values of their offspring largely reflect their own. That’s the most basic rationale for investing”
― David Jeremiah, Hopeful Parenting: Encouragement for Raising Kids Who Love God

“Things run along pretty smoothly until your kid reaches thirteen. That’s the time you need to stick ’em in a barrel, hammer the lid down nice and snug, and feed ’em through the knothole. And then, about the time he turns sixteen, plug up the knothole!2”
― David Jeremiah, Hopeful Parenting: Encouragement for Raising Kids Who Love God