Parenting Quotes by AMBrewster
We pray these words of wisdom are a blessing to you, but please know that each quote was selected simply for the truth it communicates. We cannot wholly endorse every author, the larger works these quotes were taken from, or other parenting advice given by these authors.
Lead your kids to the cross, but don’t stop there. Teach them how to pick it up and follow Christ. |
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People learn to respond to disappointment when they are very young. Therefore, sheltering them from disappointment only leads to children and young adults incapable of handling disappointment. Anyone who fights against checks and balances and accountability has something to hide. Biblical principles don’t change children . . . Jesus does. |
If your children are bored with church, the Bible, and/or prayer, they’re bored with God. If your children are bored with God, they don’t have a relationship with Him.
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Topics: Salvation, Boredom
God created you to be satisfied, but He designed that satisfaction to be found in Him. Filling your void with the things of this world only succeeds in increasing dissatisfaction. "The Bible does not teach us how to have happy homes; the Bible teaches us to know God. Happiness for those who follow Christ is merely a byproduct." "Some parents are so intent on giving their kids the physical things they didn’t have growing up that they completely forget to give their kids the spiritual blessings they did have growing up." |
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"Parenting is the third most important job you'll ever have, and it still ranks higher than your employment." |
"When someone says they 'don’t understand love,' it’s not because they were never shown love. You can be shown and can personally experience flying in a plane without understanding how it works. They 'don’t understand love' simply because they aren’t filled with God’s love."
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Topic: Love, God, Parenting, Complaints
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"Humans spend far too much time trying to control that over which they have no control and very little time controlling that over which they have nearly complete control."
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Topic: Control Freak, Self-Control, Spirit-Control
“Children who receive spiritual investment from multiple generations have greater chances of standing strong against Satan, the World, and the Flesh.”
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Topics: Multigenerational Families, Discipleship, Spiritual Warfare
"Don’t try to give your kids your 100% attention all the time. Give them your full attention when it pleases the Lord, and allow them to grow in their dependence on Christ the other times." "Our biggest parenting failures will never be making too much of God and His Word, they will be making too little of them." |
"It’s so easy to despise in our children those choices they learned from us." "God has not designed your marriage to be either satisfaction or sacrifice, but instead satisfaction via sacrifice." Love is stronger than fear. So, if your responses to your child are motivated by fear . . . love is lacking. |
"The best parenting is that which practically seeks to incarnate the reality that Jesus is Lord."
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Topics: Parenting in Christ, Gospel
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“Your child’s spiritual war isn’t fought on imaginary fronts, it’s waged in the mind. The war experienced in the mind is far more lethal than any physical battlefield. Arm your children to conquer Satan, the World, and the Flesh by teaching them the Truth of God, helping them understand it, and encouraging them to believe it.” |
"Spiritual Warfare is not waged on physical battlefields with bodies, dirt, broken bones, and carnage. Spiritual Warfare is waged in minds with ideas, philosophies, desires, and beliefs. Victory in Spiritual Warfare is won as we learn Truth, understand it, and live wisely in the fear of the Lord." |
"Spiritual Distancing: Devices aren’t bad, but don’t allow the quarantine to teach you new ways to ignore your family." "This day, this hour, has been ordained by God for you to intentionally and premeditatedly disciple your children to follow Christ. Don’t miss the purpose for the panic. Don’t substitute fear for faithfulness." |
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“Do you use your table to lead your family in celebration of God? Why not? What could possibly be more important?” "I believe most people live lives that make it impossible for them to rest as they should. This includes not only missing out on a day of rest, but also losing important sleep every night." |
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“I cannot overemphasize the importance of spending a significant quantity of quality time with your kids.” |
"Sometimes I really think I’m the wrong person for the job. But then I realize . . . I *am* the wrong person for the job. There is nothing good in me. The only way I can ever please the Lord is through His grace. So, it’s not a question of whether I’m the “right” or “wrong” person for the job, it’s the fact that He’s the perfect God for the job."
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Topics: Parenting, Marriage, Failure
You can’t protect your children from anything, but you can be used by God to prepare them for everything. My greatest fault as a husband and father is not the times I love myself more than my family; it’s the fact that — during those times — I’m convinced God is okay with what I’m doing. "Children are more capable than we know. Stop creating false barriers for entry into maturity." |
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Overwhelmed mom, you're not alone. God created the Body of Christ to bear you up, pray for you, mentor you, and help you. Embrace God's plan for your flourishing!"
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Topic: Loneliness, Parenting, Struggles
God created a universe where each action requires an equal and opposite reaction. When we parents do not give our children the consequences that are contingent on us to give, we’re lying to our children about the nature of God, the universe, and their lives. |
Whatever standard you have for your kids’ driver’s training, God’s expectations for their spiritual training infinitely exceeds it. We have every cause for joy in our parenting if we parent for the God of every joy. None of your children are good enough to earn salvation, but — then again — none of your children are too bad to be saved. Don’t use food to reward or bribe your kids. Use it as sustenance and for celebration, but don’t use it to manipulate or motivate. 
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Advent is about celebration and waiting. Children hate waiting. Therefore, it's an exquisite time to step your children into the next stage of maturity. Children are born hating when authority disagrees with them. The best way to overcome this is to prove to them that you love them. Teachers introduce our children to knowledge. We parents must remind them of it. |
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Don’t be overwhelmed by the frenetic pace the world sets in December. The ultimate joy of a relationship with God is the ability to truly and satisfactorily rest in Him. The Advent of the Messiah is worthy of our rest. |
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We cannot afford to have low expectations for our kids.
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Topics: Expectations, Parenting
Your children are all different. This means they may require different parenting.
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Topics: Parenting
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Do you want to be a good parent? Love God enough to obey Him. Parenting and patience should be spelled exactly the same! |
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Every parent delegates at least a little of their parenting every day, but give up too much and you're less the parent and more the manager.
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Topics: Parenting
Is your children's school helping them be conformed to the image of Christ?
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Topics: Education, Parenting, Priorities
Consequences are tools. In your parenting, choose the tool that will accomplish God's will in your child's life.
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Topics: Correction, Parenting
Your #children are far more capable than you can imagine. Don't keep anything good and right back from them. They can handle it. Shut off your device when you get home tonight and dedicate that time to your family! |
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The Doormat Parent does the job her husband and children should do - not as a servant, but as a slave to her own pride. Bully children are raised by bully parents. |
If your children's disobedience aggravates you, you want them to worship the wrong god. |
When you yell out of annoyance at your children, you're sinning. |
Fearful #parenting does not grow from scary children, but a weak God. There's no substitute for physical closeness with your children. 
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I'd rather choose what to be emotional about than yell at my kids because my emotions controlled me. Your children do what they believe is best. Your job's to convince them there's a better way. |
The source of good parenting isn't in you. It can't be, because good parenting isn't about us.
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Topics: Parenting, Priorities
God says you hate your kid if you don't discipline him. |
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Parent another man's child, and that father will lose a day. Teach a man to parent, and that father will gain a life. |
Do you pray for your children? I don't mean pray that they obey more - do you pray for their relationship with God? |
Neglecting your children because you're working is like neglecting life-saving surgery because you're napping. |
To parent like God you need to parent for God. |
Sometimes you just need to stop and play with your kids. And by 'sometimes,' I mean often. |
You should expect no more from your children than God does. 
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We cannot glorify God in our parenting and not allow His Truth to inform our children's relationships. |
Parents are the most potentially destructive influence in the life of their children. |
We tell our children to clean their rooms, not because it annoys us, but because we want them to know more about God. |
You don't need your spouse to support you or your kids to obey you to be a good parent. You need God. |
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There are no problem children - just God-ordained children. Children speak what they hear. Equip your kids with Truth and love. Teach your children to adore the preaching of God's Word or you will lose them. |
There are no sacred cows in parenting. We need to speak Truth into all of their relationships.
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Topics: Parenting, Relationships
Parenting requires neither fight nor flight. It requires faith. Your children will become the worst version of you unless you intentionally intervene. |
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Teaching your children to speak biblically affects their character because a man's words pour out of his heart. Parents need to teach their children biblical sexuality because the world will try to sell them a counterfeit. |
When your kids reject their earthly authority, they rebel against their heavenly authority.
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Topics: Authority, Parenting
Your greatest calling may be rearing a child with a global calling. |
Have you noticed how much harder it is dealing with your child than someone else's? They call that 'pride.' |
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Speak Truth in love to your children or don't speak at all. Your children aren't an inconvenience, they're a calling. |
Parenting is the third most important job you'll ever have, and it still ranks higher than your employment. Your kids read a lot of books, but do they have a steady diet of God's perfect Word? Your children are smarter than you think; they're more capable than you realize. |
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