D. A. Carson Quotes

I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God's purposes - love for all beings - is the center of all right living.

I wish I would have kept the big picture in my mind at all times - what it most important? That my kids seek to please God and learn about their Creator.

When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down.

If you want to know my character, look at the kids I've raised.

The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children

You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of external religion, where performance is more important than reality. Fake your faith. Sneak around and pretend your spirituality. Train your children to do the same. Embrace a long list of do's and don'ts publicly but hypocritically practice them privately... yet never own up to the fact that its hypocrisy. Act one way but live another. And you can count on it - emotional and spiritual damage will occur.

Behold your little ones. Pray with them. Pray for them and bless them. The world into which they are moving is a complex and difficult world. They will run into heavy seas of adversity. They will need all the strength and all the faith you can give them while they are yet near you. While they are young, pray with them that they may come to know that source of strength which shall then always be taught of the Lord' and great shall be the peace of thy children.

Keep eternity before the children.

We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.

Easter is all about remembering the importance of change, responsibility, and doing the right thing for the good of our children.

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.

Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.

When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them.

The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man's spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.

My children have made me a better man, which is - in the end, that's probably more important than two more comedy specials or being in better shape.

A good example is a better legacy for children than wealth or honor.

What you BECOME on earth matters far more than what you DO. You're taking your character to heaven, not your career.

I am not promoting Buddhism. I am promoting human values.

You have nothing in this world more precious than your children. When you grow old, when your hair turns white and your body grows weary, when you are prone to sit in a rocker and meditate on the things of your life, nothing will be so important as the question of how your children have turned out... Do not trade your birthright as a mother for some bauble of passing value... The baby you hold in your arms will grow as quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days.

We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.

What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them

You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.

You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. ...Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows. ...Your prayers for your children are the greatest legacy you can leave.

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.