Some people in this life think they're worth something, or that they have a right to things. I never thought I had a right to anything 'cause of the way I was broken as a child. And therefore I was sort of floating around and would get sucked into things.
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
Ive been competitive since day one. Even in little things as a child, like having a twin and a direct competitor for who makes better cookies.
First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.
We've changed our reflections, but inside we're just a child.
Before Elijah could raise a nation from the dead, he raised just one dead child.
It is a strange thing ,that every child is born with a closed hand , and every body dies with an open hand !
When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.
From what I hear, it's a normal thing to feel guilty as a mother, especially when trying to fill the needs of a newborn along with maintaining what you had with your first child.
When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.
The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.
I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood.
Training a child is exactly like training a puppy; a little heedless inattention and it is out of hand immediately; the great thing is not to let it acquire bad habits that must afterward be broken.
That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. "My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying, child. " I stopped.
And really, there is nothing more innocent and cruel than a child.
I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.
When you give a little of yourself to a child, you give a little of yourself to their future !
The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage that our child died. The gratitude is what heals the despair.
The Catholic community must offer support to those women who may find it difficult to accept a child, above all when they are isolated from their family and friends. Likewise, the community should be open to welcome back all who repent of having participated in the grave sin of abortion, and should guide them with pastoral charity to accept the grace of forgiveness, the need for penance, and the joy of entering once more into the new life of Christ.
As to the latter point - that by having a child in America you are somehow starving a child in Bangladesh - remember that agricultural economics is not a zero-sum game. Farmers want to make a living, so as demand increases, so does production. Not only that, but agricultural productivity has increased so rapidly that in some countries the government pays farmers not to plant crops in an effort to keep food prices from dropping.