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I was very spiritual as a kid. I think I felt and thought about things a lot more deeply than most of the other kids my age. I wanted to help people.

Children touch all of our lives. We all have the opportunity to sow seeds into the next generation, and there's nothing more important that we can leave on this earth than a legacy of faith, hope, and confidence in our God.

There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.

Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or eternal verities, they are part of how we help kids make sense of the world.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

I felt the Lord at a young age. And it was one of those things where that seed was planted, you know, when I was a kid.

Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then reinforced in our memory and can continue to drive our behavior as adults.

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.