Quotes
The Greatest Lack in the Religion of Children…
The greatest lack in the religion of children is generally a sufficient sense of sin. Robert Murray M’Cheyene via John Piper Hmmm. Do I believe that? Do you? Are we speaking law and grace?
Our Children Are Never Too Young – Part II – JC Ryle
One again, we are minded it is never too soon! HT: Ryle Quotes We must labor to do good to our children even from their earliest years. If Satan begins so early to do them harm, we must not be behind him in diligence to lead them to God. How soon in life a child becomes [...]
Spurgeon on His Father’s Prayers for Him
I know that the words of my father with me alone, when he prayed for me, and bade me pray for myself,—not to use any form of prayer, but to pray just as I felt, and to ask from God what I felt that I really wanted,—left an impression upon my mind that will never be erased. – [...]
Are You Inviting Correction from Others on Your Parenting?
As a minister, I cannot help remarking that there is hardly any subject about which people seem so tenacious as they are about their own children. I have sometimes been perfectly astonished at the slowness of sensible Christian parents to allow their own children are in fault, or deserve blame. There are not a few [...]
Worldliness Quote from Ray Steadman
Ray Steadman has an old sermon with an unfootnoted quote that I liked. To sum up, the Christian’s vocation is to be in the world, but not of it; to represent Christ in it and to intercede on its behalf because it is under judgment (this is the Christian’s priesthood), to identify himself with its sufferings [...]
