In Taiwan there's a saying: Raising a child is more important than giving birth. Raising a child is greater.
Bakers get excited over aprons. I love the soft cotton ones with pockets like my gramma and mom wore. They always kept a hankie tucked in one pocket, which wasn't sanitary, but was comforting to the child who needed a tear or nose wiped.
Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.
I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.
You have to tap into the child in you. If you can get to that innocent place, then you're golden. That was the subconscious goal for me.
God's love does not distinguish between the infant in the mother's womb or the child or the youth or the adult or the older person. In each one God sees His image and likeness. Human life is a manifestation of God and His glory.
In The Lost Message of Jesus I claim that penal substitution is tantamount to 'child abuse - a vengeful Father punishing his Son for an offence he has not even committed. ' Though the sheer bluntness of this imagery (not original to me of course) might shock some, in truth, it is only a stark 'unmasking' of the violent, pre-Christian thinking behind such a theology.
I'd describe my inner life as constantly vigilant, always ready to flee or respond with violence. I've felt this way since I was a small child. Although it's often quite amusing, it's exhausting at times to live with myself, and when I'm tired and overwhelmed, I do become very depressed. If I'm unable to work for too long, I start questioning my purpose on this earth and whether or not I deserve to live. When I look at other people, I get the sense that they live with themselves much more gracefully.
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination.
And in Freddy vs. Jason I like when Jason and I double team Destiny's Child.
Amid ancient lore the Word of God stands unique and pre-eminent. Wonderful in its construction, admirable in its adaptation, it contains truths that a child may comprehend, and mysteries into which angels desire to look.
When you do something that people watch and enjoy as children, that's great because it stays with you, throughout your life. The things you loved as a child stay with you, and so do the people who were in those things.
No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
I'm Razo, a member of Bayern's Own," he said, stopping himself from adding "Loafing is just a hobby of mine. " "Bayern's Own? But you're a child. " Razo looked up to the sky. "I'm not a child, I'm just short.
An album is like a child and after a while I was ready to give birth!
Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.
I've been a fan of the Marvel Universe since I was a little child.