Raising Spiritual Children

Quotes on Raising Children

Over time you will find many helpful quotes on raising children on this page.

Discipline of Spiritual Children

Use Uniform Consistent Methods

Teach Children About The Seventh-day Sabbath

Raise Responsible Trustworthy Children

A Message With a Sense of Urgency

Recommended Books

Real Home - Vesta Farnsworth

This is a marvelous book on marriage and the family. Ought to be must reading!

You and Your Child - Flora Williams

You will find many practical suggestions AND a story to help you in teaching the lesson to your child. This is an expanded edition.

Notable Scripture

Ephesians 6:4 "And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord."

Notable Quotes

"If you would educate your children to serve God and do good in the world, make the Bible your textbook. Whatever else is taught in the home or at school, the Bible, as the great educator, should stand first. If it is given this place, God is honored, and he will work for you in the conversion of your children."

"There is a rich mine of truth and beauty in this holy book, and parents have themselves to blame if they do not make it intensely interesting to their children."

"Kind words, pleasant looks, a cheerful countenance, throw a charm around the Christian that makes his influence almost irresistible."

"The salvation of children depends very much upon the course pursued by the parents. Children must be restrained, and their passions subdued...."

"It is because the home training is defective that the youth are so unwilling to submit to proper authority."

"I am a mother. I know whereof I speak when I say that youth and children are not only safer but happier under wholesome restraint than when following their own inclinations."

"Parents, your sons and daughters are not properly guarded. They should never be permitted to go and come when they please, without your knowledge and consent."

"The unbounded freedom granted to children at this age has proved the ruin of thousands." —Taken from the Home Missionary, June 1, 1889, par. 1 and 2

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