Children Quote by Elisabeth Elliot

Sometimes God's refusals are His mercies.

— Elisabeth Elliot

“God has already shown us the way [to parent]. He parents, not according to an external list of rules, but according to his nature.…

— Leslie Leyland Fields

God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

— Elisabeth Elliot

God's love is so perfect that He lovingly requires us to obey His commandments because He knows that only through obedience to His laws…

— Dallin H. Oaks

“God is merciful to children, but the children must be worthy as well.”

— Nicholas Sparks

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The goodness of God to mankind is no less evinced in the chastisement with which He corrects His children than in the smiles of…

— Hosea Ballou

God has given you your child, that the sight of him, from time to time, might remind you of His goodness, and induce you…

— Christian Scriver

“It’s not God I want, it’s someone in skin!" a child once cried out to his mother. With an almost unbearable honesty, he expressed…

— Noelle Oxenhandler

As Christians we know, in theory at least, that in the life of a child of God there are no second causes, that even…

— Hannah Hurnard

Good things don't happen to the child of God; the child of God brings forth good things out of him.

— Chris Oyakhilome

I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more…

— George Saunders