John Masefield Quotes

A child is a life that has not gone too far away from the Creator. Know a child to know life.

Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder.

They (children) are my teachers. I watch them and I learn. It is important for us to try and be like them and imitate them. They are golden.

I'm trying to imitate Jesus in the fact that he said to be like children, to love children, to be as pure as children and to make yourself as innocent and to see the world through eyes of wonderment and the whole magical quality of it all.

Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better.

Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.

Dear, harmless age! the short, swift span Where weeping Virtue parts with man; Where love without lust dwells, and bends What way we please without self-ends. An age of mysteries! which he Must live that would God's face see Which angels guard, and with it play, Angels! which foul men drive away.

In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.

Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are the freshest from the hand of god.

He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them.

Children are the keys of Paradise. They alone are good and wise, because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.

People is themselves when they are children, and not again till they know they'm dying.

Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.

The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, Let all children come unto me.