Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
Children are our future, and God loves the children.
The mind of a child is no less vagrant than his steps; it pursues the gossamer and flies from object to object, lawless and unconfined, and it is equally necessary to the development of his frame that his thoughts and his body should be free from fetters.
In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.
The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.
Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe.
Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.
I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.
Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.