Believe Quote by John Nelson Darby

God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race -- to enlarge our hearts, to make us unselfish, and full…

— Mary Howitt

Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.

— Marian Wright Edelman

God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and…

— Mary Howitt

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.

— Leon Kass

In a disparate world, children are a unifying force capable of bringing us all together in support of a common ethic.

— Graca Machel

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Just as God's love to us believers, his children, is unalterably the same, whatever may be the manifestations of that love; and as his…

— George Muller

Because God loves us, he gives us practical teaching and boundaries to protect our hearts. The whole thing is one big expression of a…

— Jennifer Rothschild

This sense of being made in God's image calls us all constantly to look for it in others and to do what we can…

— Marva Dawn

“We are all children of a God who knows us, loves us, and is there for us, especially in our sorrow and suffering. To…

— Toni Sorenson

“In communities, at work, but particularly in families, people are put together in something like a three-legged race. God means us to cross the…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green