Too many adults wish to protect teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.

Margaret A. Edwards

Dan kamu, bapa-bapa, janganlah bangkitkan amarah di dalam hati anak-anakmu, tetapi didiklah mereka di dalam ajaran dan nasihat Tuhan.

Efesus 6:4

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Albert Einstein

Aku hendak bersyukur kepada TUHAN karena keadilan-Nya, dan bermazmur bagi nama TUHAN, Yang Mahatinggi.

Mazmur 7:18

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

Willie Nelson

Aku mau bersyukur kepada TUHAN dengan segenap hatiku, aku mau menceritakan segala perbuatan-Mu yang ajaib.

Mazmur 9:1

Bukan bahagia yang membuat bersyukur.

Tapi bersyukur yang mendatangkan kebahagiaan.

Didiklah anakmu, maka ia akan memberikan ketenteraman kepadamu, dan mendatangkan sukacita kepadamu.

Amsal 29:17

One unbiblical attitude is reflected in the problem of parents who build their entire lives and marriages around their children.

Bible.org

Segala tulisan yang diilhamkan Allah memang bermanfaat untuk mengajar, untuk menyatakan kesalahan, untuk memperbaiki kelakuan dan untuk mendidik orang dalam kebenaran.

2 Timotius 3:16

The covenant union of marriage was the way God planned to fill the earth with human beings who would reflect his glory by their faith and creative productivity.

John Piper

Hendaklah kamu selalu rendah hati, lemah lembut, dan sabar.

Tunjukkanlah kasihmu dalam hal saling membantu.

Dan berusahalah memelihara kesatuan Roh oleh ikatan damai sejahtera.

Efesus 4:2-3

Marriage is not about me anymore. From now on, it's always about us!

Matthew L Jacobson

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

1 Petrus 3:8

True friends face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

C.S. Lewis

God is the source of all truth, including truths about sex.

We could rely on him to teach us if we put in the effort.

Daniel Purcell

TUHAN Allah berfirman: "Tidak baik, kalau manusia itu seorang diri saja. Aku akan menjadikan penolong baginya, yang sepadan dengan dia.

Kejadian 2:18

Parents, you will teach your children more by scheduling regular times to nurture the relationship between husband and wife

than you would ever teach them through a lecture on committment.

Although it is important for you pray to for your child, seeking the Lord for that perfect spouse for them,

it is equally important that you teach them through your example how to cherish the future gift of a companion that the Lord has in store for them.

Katherine Walden

Tongkat dan teguran mendatangkan hikmat, tetapi anak yang dibiarkan mempermalukan ibunya.

Amsal 29:15

Relationships take time and patience. Sometimes you just need to let God uses time to lead the way for you.

Tuhan memakai keluarga dalam rencana agung-Nya

Unit sosial terkecil yang sering diganggu bapa segala dusta

Tetap lekat tak luput dari perhatian kasih setia

Untuk memancarkan kemuliaan dan membawa asa

Terarah kembali pada Sang Pengagas Keluarga

Selamat menikmati selintas keindahan surga dalam keluarga.

Selamat membagikan dampak bagi sesama agar nama Tuhan dimuliakan melalui keluarga.

Janganlah ikuti norma-norma dunia ini.

Biarkan Allah membuat pribadimu menjadi baru, supaya kalian berubah.

Dengan demikian kalian sanggup mengetahui kemauan Allah--yaitu apa yang baik dan yang menyenangkan hati-Nya dan yang sempurna

Roma 12:2 - BIS

Tetapi andaikata Kristus tidak dibangkitkan, maka sia-sialah pemberitaan kami dan sia-sialah juga kepercayaan kamu.

1 Korintus 15:14

Midwives leading the way with quality care.

Happy International Day of the Midwife.

InternationalMidwives.org

Little eyes are watching you.

Set a healthy example for them, and they’ll be much more likely to follow it when they get older.

Dave Ramsey

Tuhan bukanlah manusia, sehingga Ia berdusta bukan anak manusia, sehingga Ia menyesal.

Masakan Ia berfirman dan tidak melakukannya, atau berbicara dan tidak menepatinya?

Bilangan 23:19

Berbohong tidak pernah tidak mendatangkan masalah.

Wahyu 21:8 menunjukkan konsekuensi kebohongan.

Buang dusta, katakan kebenaran dengan kasih dan bijak.

Anonymous

The paradox of choice isn’t a new concept—the sheer number of options we have today seems to be making everyone a little anxious.

Not every decision is critical. Rest on God and feel free to throw anxiety away.

Anonymous

Anak Allah Yesus nama-Nya
Menyucikan, menyembuhkan
Bahkan mati tebus dosaku
Kubur kosong membuktikan Dia hidup
S'bab Dia hidup, ada hari esok
S'bab Dia hidup, ku tak gentar
Kar'na ku tau Dia pegang hari esok
Hidup jadi berarti s'bab Dia hidup.

William Gather

God created each one of us in our own unique way.

Just like a snowflake we all hold a blueprint that differs one from another.

It’s great to lose weight and keep our bodies healthy and strong,

but it’s also important that we appreciate who we are today –

with or without extra pounds.

Candace Bure

I give all the glory to God. It’s kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.

Gabby Douglas

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

Denzel Washington

If you provide the drive, dream, and vision, with God’s help, you can accomplish anything.

Phil Robertson

Learn the art of growing without losing your inner child.

Author Unknown

Engkau harus bangun berdiri di hadapan orang ubanan dan engkau harus menaruh hormat kepada orang yang tua dan engkau harus takut akan Allahmu;  Akulah TUHAN.

Imamat 19:32

Our children's rebellion is not the problem. It is the symptom.

Why they are rebelling is the problem.

And unless we address the "why," the external things we do in reaction to their rebellion will not make much of a difference.

Tim Kimmel, Why Christian Kids Rebel: Trading Heartache for Hope

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

Author Unknown

Anak-anakku, marilah kita mengasihi bukan dengan perkataan atau dengan lidah, tetapi dengan perbuatan dan dalam kebenaran.

1 Yohanes 3:18

The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed.

Calling a child "rebellious" has the equivalent effect of calling a child that is struggling in school "stupid." It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Tim Kimmel

Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.

Jeremy P Johnson

Jadi siapa yang ada di dalam Kristus, ia adalah ciptaan baru yang lama sudah berlalu, sesungguhnya yang baru sudah datang.

2 Korintus 5:17

"Sesungguhnya, anak dara itu akan mengandung dan melahirkan seorang anak laki-laki, dan mereka akan menamakan Dia Imanuel" --yang berarti: Tuhan menyertai kita.

Matius 1:23

Sebab seorang anak telah lahir untuk kita, seorang putera telah diberikan untuk kita; lambang pemerintahan ada di atas bahunya, dan namanya disebutkan orang: Penasihat Ajaib, Allah yang Perkasa, Bapa yang Kekal, Raja Damai.

Yesaya 9:6

Show your children God’s love by loving them and others as Christ loves you.

Be quick to forgive, don’t hold a grudge, look for what’s best,

and speak gently into areas of their lives that need growth.

Genny Monchamp

Ask your children two questions this Christmas.

First: “What do you want to give to others for Christmas?”

Second: “What do you want for Christmas?”

The first fosters generosity of heart and an outward focus.

The second can breed selfishness if not tempered by the first.

Anonymous

You shall teach them to your sons, talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up.

Deuteronomy 11:19

As God relates to us as His children, so we must relate to our children

You want to mess up the minds of your children?

Here’s how – guaranteed!

Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of external religion, where performance is more important than reality.

Fake your faith. Sneak around and pretend your spirituality. Train your children to do the same.

Embrace a long list of do’s and don’ts publicly but hypocritically practice them privately… yet never own up to the fact that its hypocrisy.

Act one way but live another.

And you can count on it – emotional and spiritual damage will occur.

Charles Swindoll

So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself.

Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Matthew 6:34

The family should be a closely knit group.

The home should be a self-contained shelter of security;

a kind of school where life’s basic lessons are taught;

and a kind of church where God is honored;

a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed.

Billy Graham

A child needs both to be hugged and unhugged.

The hug lets her know she is valuable.

The unhug lets her know that she is viable.

If you’re always shoving your child away, they will cling to you for love.

If you’re always holding them closer, they will cling to you for fear.

Polly Berrien Berends

Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth.

Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them!

He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Psalm 127:3-5

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Henry Ward Beecher

When we let our children fly as arrows, we understand that we have been chosen by God to be the bow in their lives and point them in the right direction as we lead them to Jesus.

Crystal McDowell

Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties. The first and most natural condition of things is for Christian parents to train up their own children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Until kids find something worth dying for, they don't have anything worth living for.

Tim Kimmel, Why Christian Kids Rebel: Trading Heartache for Hope

Correct your son, and he will give you comfort; He will also delight your soul.

Proverbs 29:17

The balancing act we parents attempt is convincing our children:

1. You are loved more than you can imagine.
2. The world does not revolve around you.

John Eldredge, Love and War: Finding the Marriage You've Dreamed Of

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided, but for the feeling that you cherished them

A man must talk to God about his children before he talks to his children about God.

Ed Cole

We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models – most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out

Josh McDowell

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time

Chinese proverb

The happiest and holiest children in the world are the children whose fathers succeed in winning both their tender affection and their reverential and loving fear.

And they are the children who will come to understand most easily the mystery of the fatherhood of God.

John Piper

Anak terlahir ke dunia dengan kebutuhan untuk disayangi tanpa kekerasan,

bawaan hidup ini jangan sekalipun didustakan.

Dr. Widodo Judarwanto

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Chuck Swindoll

Hendaklah adab sopan anak-anak itu dibentuk sejak kecil

karena ketika kecil mudah membentuk dan mengasuhnya.

Belum dirusakkan oleh adat kebiasaan yang sukar ditinggalkan.

Hamka

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents

will not have true respect for anyone.

Billy Graham

Kebahagiaan menjadi orang tua tak ternilai harganya

Anonim

We know the excitement of getting a present

– we love to unwrap it to see what is inside.

So it is with our children

they are gifts we unwrap for years

as we discover the unique characters

God has made them.

Cornelius Plantinga

Ajarlah seorang anak

cara hidup yang patut baginya,

maka sampai masa tuanya

ia akan hidup demikian.

Amsal 22:6 (BIS)

Children take more notice

of what their parents do,

than what they say.