Robert Jeffress Quotes

Parents are supposed to instill a sense of right and wrong in their children and then keep up the due diligence necessary to make sure they don't veer off that path.

Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.

Men, your primary responsibility in your home, after your wife, is you to disciple your own children. And if you don't do it, you're in sin; you are in sin. And if you turn it over to a Sunday school teacher, you are in sin. And you are to be teaching these children more than just stories about animals that went into Noah's ark. You're to be teaching them about God, about radical depravity, about blood atonement, about propitiation, expiation, justification, sanctification; you are to teach your children!

We must all live so that our children do not have to pay for our deeds.

If we do not teach our sons, no one else is going to do it, because they don’t care.

If parents would have their children blessed at church and school, let them beware they give their children no corrupt examples at home by any carelessness, profaneness or ungodliness. Otherwise, parents will do them more harm at home than both pastors and schoolmasters can do them good abroad.

Let us first fulfill Christ's injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children. Otherwise we are not fathers, but enemies of our children, and they are not our children, but our enemies, and we have made them our enemies ourselves.

It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.

Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties. The first and most natural condition of things is for Christian parents to train up their own children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.

The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.

It is the parents duty to intervene when they see wrong choices being made.

We all agree that parents have the primary responsibility of filtering the material that reaches children. However, children are often lured onto websites containing obscene material through the devious manipulation of search engines.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.

If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?

The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God…For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward.

Children are entitled to life. We conceive them and so we owe them our care and our protection. This may not be a dictate of law anymore, but it is a dictate of love.

A sense of duty - you only really get this feeling when you have a child. You always only used to be responsible for yourself and then there is also a child.

Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play.

In our family, at this point,[Sunday School] its not a choice for my kids. It's a duty for us as parents to give them faith as a foundation and hope that when they bemuse older teens and young adults they will choose the same thing for themselves.

No greater responsibility can rest upon a man, than to be a teacher of God's children

The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.

Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.