Thoughts To Think On
"Avoid for yourself whatever would be injurious for them to copy." - Charles Finney
"Remember that your example will be more influential than your precept." - Charles Finney
"Avoid begetting within them the spirit of ambition to be rich, great, learned, or anything else but good. If you foster a spirit of selfish ambition it will give birth, of course, to anger, pride, and a whole herd of devilish passions." - Charles Finney
"Avoid every evil influence from outside the home. Let no children visit them whose conversation or manners may corrupt them." - Charles Finney
"Do not teach them to disobey by rewarding them for disobedience. Remember! you do this every time you give them anything because they cry for it." - John Wesley
Your children are "immortal spirits whom God hath, for a time, entrusted to your care, that you may train them up in all holiness, and fit them for the enjoyment of God in eternity." - John Wesley
"Use every means to give them a love of truth, - of veracity, sincerity, and simplicity, and of openness both of spirit and behaviour." - John Wesley
"The duty of children to their parents. Come, you children, hearken to me, I will teach you the fear of the Lord. The great duty of children is to obey their parents, parents being the instruments of their being, God and nature having given them an authority to command, in subserviency to God; and, if children will be obedient to their pious parents, they will be in a fair way to be pious as they are. That obedience which God demands from their children, in their behalf, includes an inward reverence, as well as the outward expressions and acts." - Matthew Henry
"Every word of God is full of a divine life and power. Be assured that when thou dost seek to use the Scriptures as Christ used them, they will do for thee what they did for Him. God has marked out the plan of thy life in His Word." - Andrew Murray
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