We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.
Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
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.
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose he means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.
A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.
I am my father's daughter: I have his language, his expressions.
The word of God is very important to Christmas. For unto us a child was born, and we should be reminded of how Christ's amazing journey came to be.
To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author. He has heard two languages through childhood, the one spoken with ease at home, and the other spoken with ease in the streets and at school, but spoken poorly at home.
Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.