Love-Centered Parenting Quotes

“Today, I commit to live as loved. I choose to believe I am fully and wholeheartedly loved by God for exactly who I am. I don’t have to be more, do more, or achieve more to be loved by Him. When I am tempted to believe the lies that have held me back for so many years, I will replace those lies with the truth that I am fully loved by God. Jesus loves me unconditionally and doesn’t judge me based upon my kids’ behaviors or choices. I will put my hope in Him, not in my child’s choices. I choose to be okay with my children making mistakes and messing up because I know this is why Jesus came. I will focus on pointing my kids to Jesus and will no longer spend my days trying to be my children’s rescuer and Holy Spirit. I choose to open my tightly clenched fists trying to control all of life, and hold out my hands to accept the gift of God’s love for me. I refuse to believe the lies that tell me I’m not measuring up and am missing the mark of perfection as a parent. Instead, I choose to rest in the truth that I am created in the image of God and He sees me as His masterpiece. I don’t have to beat myself up when I feel like I don’t have what it takes but will remember that I am enough in Christ. I was made for more than living a life stifled by lies and suffocated by false beliefs. I will replace those lies with the truth of who I am in Christ. I am loved. I am forgiven. I am enough in Christ. Jesus, thank You for loving me exactly as I am. Thank You for not expecting me to parent perfectly, but for being the Ultimate Example of a Love-Centered Parent to me. I rest in Your amazing love for me. Let me be a conduit of God’s love to others. May it pour through me and spill out to everyone I come into contact with.”
― Crystal Paine, Love-Centered Parenting: The No-Fail Guide to Launching Your Kids

“We get to model Jesus’love in action to our kids. We get to set an example of a servant’s heart. We get to be the hands and feet of Jesus to these little ones. We get to point our kids to Jesus and pour into them in their most formative years. And we get to acknowledge our struggles, admit when we are wrong, and experience their forgiveness.

Ultimately, we have the opportunity to show our kids what humble leadership looks like, and that’s powerful stuff! And sometimes we get opportunities to see all that work pay off in big dividends as our kids model Jesus’love right back to us!

If you’re feeling the work you are doing is mundane and thankless, picture me leaning in and looking into your eyes right now and saying this: Don’t give up. Press on. Keep loving the people around you wholeheartedly. Keep investing. Keep showing up and leading with humility. It is making a difference—even if you can’t see it right now.”
― Crystal Paine, Love-Centered Parenting: The No-Fail Guide to Launching Your Kids

“As parents, leading with humility means we give and give—especially when our babes are little and they need our constant care. Often it can seem like exhausting, thankless work.

We spend our lives doing the same thing over and over again. We wash and fold the same clothes. We do the same dishes. We change who knows how many diapers.

We make meals only to have our family be hungry almost right after they are finished eating. We wake up for middle-of-the-night feedings. We bathe little bodies over and over—only for them to go play in the mud yet again the next day.

We answer the same questions again and again. We give the same reminders countless times. It can feel monotonous and we might wonder if it’s really making any difference.

I’m here to tell you that it’s not pointless work; it’s investing in the lives and souls of humans. It’s nurturing and loving. It’s holy work—even the mundane stuff. It matters.”
― Crystal Paine, Love-Centered Parenting: The No-Fail Guide to Launching Your Kids

“When you know you are so valuable and loved, there is a hiccup in your thought processes now . . . and you have a moment where you get to say, ‘Whoa, whoa, wait a minute,’ in relation to this situation, like, how am I going to see this now. . . . Remember, remember, I’m loved now, so how would Loved Me do this?”1”
― Crystal Paine, Love-Centered Parenting: The No-Fail Guide to Launching Your Kids