“To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)... The gospel portrait of the beloved Child of Abba is that of a man exquisitely attuned to His emotions and uninhibited in expressing them. The Son of Man did not scorn of reject feelings as fickle and unreliable. They were sensitive antennae to which He listened carefully and through which He perceived the will of His Father for congruent speech and action.” MenChildrenFeelingsActionSpiritFatherJesusEmotionFailingEmotionalSonHolySpeechMovedBelovedSensitiveHoly SpiritRejectsSpiritual LifePortraitsScornStirringFickleUnreliableEmotional LifeAbbaAbba Father Author:Brennan Manning
“Mothers have a sacred role. They are partners with God, as well as with their own husbands, first in giving birth to the Lord's spirit children and then rearing those children so they will serve the Lord and keep his commandments. ...Motherhood is a holy calling, a sacred dedication for carrying out the Lord's work, a consecration and devotion to the rearing and fostering, the nurturing of body, mind, and spirit of those who kept their first estate and who came to this earth for their second estate to learn and be tested.” GivingMindFirstsWellsChildrenBodyEarthSpiritMotherLordRolesBirthHolyCallingHusbandSacredMotherhoodPartnersDevotionDedicationCommandmentsEstatesTestedNurturingGiving BirthConsecrationFostering Author:Spencer W. Kimball
“One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom—all for the sake of glimpsing, just once in a lifetime, the face of a holy child. He was the Fourth to follow the Star. His gift was a secret. The rest of his journey is unknown.” GivingChildrenFacesStarsSecretStepsJourneyKingsHolyGiving UpLifetimeSakeKingdomsRemoveFourthCrownsReinsOnce In A Lifetime Author:Vera Nazarian
“Do you know who you are? God made you a woman. Accept His gift. Don't be afraid to be feminine and to add physical and spiritual loveliness to the setting where He has placed you. You are a child of God. You are a part of the bride of Christ. You belong to the King--you are royalty. Dress and conduct yourself in a way that reflects your high and holy calling. God has called you out of this world's system--don't let the world press you into its mold. Don't think, dress, or act like the world; inwardly and outwardly, let others see the difference He makes in your life.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayChildrenMadeSpiritualChristDifferencesAcceptingThis WorldKingsHolyCallingDressesWho You ArePressesAddSettingSettingsFeminineDo You KnowRoyaltyMoldBridesChild Of GodLoveliness Author:Nancy Leigh DeMoss
“Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the Wonder that is God. And yet, thus to penetrate, to push in sensitive living experience into the holy Presence, is a privilege open to every child of God.” ChildrenHardEyeTodayWaitingSoundVoiceDifferencesChurchWonderSeaHolySaintPrivilegeWideSensitiveProphetOrthodoxInwardVeilsPenetrateChild Of GodScribes Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.” InspirationalHeartMayChildrenJesusMy HeartHolyBedQuietTheeChamber Author:Martin Luther
“I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which means are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must be corrupt.” HeartMeanChildrenSchoolEducationHellLearningYouthHolyProveInstitutionsScriptureLabourGatesWord Of GodReignExplainingAdviseParamountHoly ScripturesGates Of Hell Author:Martin Luther
“Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.” ThinkingMeanChildrenChristBornSunFireHolySummerWinterChristmasUnfortunateProsperousDecemberSummer Sun Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.” KnowsChildrenDoeSpiritPrayerTeachKnow HowOughtPrayingHolyWeaknessHoly SpiritChild Of GodPetitions Book:Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons Source: Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons
“As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them. I still do. I continue to do what I did as a child; dream of books, make books and collect books.” ChildrenStillsBookDreamKidsFeltObjectsHolyLibrary Author:Maurice Sendak