Small Matters Quotes

“Every day, 21,000 children die as a result of poverty or poverty-related preventable diseases. Every 3.6 seconds, a person dies of starvation, and most often it is a child under the age of five.”
― Greg Nettle, Small Matters: How Churches and Parents Can Raise Up World-Changing Children

“More than 100,000 children living in the US are sold into sex trafficking every year.”
― Greg Nettle, Small Matters: How Churches and Parents Can Raise Up World-Changing Children

“In developing countries, 13 percent of children between the ages of seven and eighteen have never even attended school.”
― Greg Nettle, Small Matters: How Churches and Parents Can Raise Up World-Changing Children

“An average American child will see 200,000 violent acts and 16,000 murders on TV by age eighteen.”
― Greg Nettle, Small Matters: How Churches and Parents Can Raise Up World-Changing Children

“We see poverty and prosperity as similar problems. Though the circumstances of a child in poverty are different from those of a child in prosperity, they are both equally at risk. One child has too little. One child has too much. One child needs more. One child thinks she deserves more. One child is in danger of forgetting about God because she doesn’t have enough. One child is in danger of forgetting about God because she has more than enough.”
― Greg Nettle, Small Matters: How Churches and Parents Can Raise Up World-Changing Children

“Every day, each individual in America produces 4.5 pounds of garbage. That’s 1,642.5 pounds of garbage per year, per person.”
― Greg Nettle, Small Matters: How Churches and Parents Can Raise Up World-Changing Children

“We purchase an average of 1,440 McDonald’s burgers, 5,695 Starbucks drinks, and $84,000 worth of items on Amazon every sixty seconds.”
― Greg Nettle, Small Matters: How Churches and Parents Can Raise Up World-Changing Children

“We lay our children on the sacrificial altar of our careers. We lay our children on the sacrificial altar of our broken marriages. We lay our children on the sacrificial altar of our pursuit of more stuff. We lay our children on the sacrificial altar of venerating a sports star more than a schoolteacher. We lay our children on the sacrificial altar of caring more about being on the golf course than being in church as a family. We lay our children on the sacrificial altar today to receive the blessings of the gods we worship.”
― Greg Nettle, Small Matters: How Churches and Parents Can Raise Up World-Changing Children