Priceless Legacy

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow,

yet we forget that he is someone today. 

“Children are like wet cement.

Whatever falls on them makes an impression.”

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. 

Author Unknown

 

You can learn many things from children. 

How much patience you have, for instance.

The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives. 

 Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. 

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

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. 

What!  Is it nothing to be happy? 

Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? 

Never in his life will he be so busy again.

While we try to teach our children all about life, 

Our children teach us what life is all about.

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything. 

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

  
  It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. 

If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.

   There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. 

There are seven million.

“My dear brothers and sisters,

May the laughter of children gladden our hearts.

May the faith of children soothe our souls.

 May the love of children prompt our deeds.

Thomas S. Monson

These precious little ones are as angels among us.

Offenders of these little ones face a divine wrath.

Merlin R. Lybbert

"Could there be a stronger denunciation of those who abuse children

than these words spoken by the Savior of mankind?

Do you want a spirit of love to grow in the world?

Then begin within the walls of your own home.

Behold your little ones and see within them the wonders of God,

from whose presence they have recently come"

Gordon B. Hinckley

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. 

"As children of God we are somebody.

He will build us, mold us, and magnify us if we will but hold our heads up,

 our arms out, and walk with him."

Marvin J. Ashton

"With the influences of evil that surround our children, can we even imagine sending them out in the morning without kneeling and humbly asking together for the Lord's protection? Or closing the day without kneeling together and acknowledging our accountability before Him and our thankfulness for His blessings? Brothers and sisters, we need to have family prayer."

Neil L. Andersen

"Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel

and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly

 that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith."

President Boyd K. Packer

"God has given us many gifts, much diversity,

and many differences, but the essential thing is what we know

about each other that we are all his children.

Our challenge as members of the Church

is for all of us to learn from each other,

that we may all love each other and grow together."

Cheiko M. Okazaki

"We cannot control what others choose to do,

and so we cannot force our children to heaven,

but we can determine what we will do.

And we can decide that we will do all we can

to bring down the powers of heaven

into that family we want so much to have forever."

Elder Henry B. Eyring

"Parents can plant seeds in the hearts

and minds of their children only if they know

where the children are and what they are doing.

 Parents should not leave the teaching of their children to chance."

Joseph B. Wirthlin

"Parents must have a knowledge of the standard works

to teach them to their children.

A child who has been taught from the scriptures

has a priceless legacy."

President James E. Faust

"The Savior taught that we should not lay up treasures on earth but should lay up treasures in heaven.

In light of the ultimate purpose of the great plan of happiness,

I believe that the ultimate treasures on earth

and in heaven are our children and our posterity."

Dallin H. Oaks

"This is a world in which we are to prove ourselves.

The lifetime of man is a day of trial, wherein we may prove to God,

in our darkness, in our weakness, and where the enemy reigns,

that we are our Father's friends, and that we receive light from him

and are worthy to be leaders of our children to become lords of lords,

and kings of kings to have perfect dominion over that portion of our families that will be crowned in the celestial kingdom with glory,

immortality, and eternal lives."

Brigham Young

"God offers us counsel not just for our own safety

but for the safety of His other children, whom we should love.

There are few comforts so sweet as to know that we have been

an instrument in the hands of God in leading someone else to safety.

That blessing generally requires the faith to follow counsel when it is hard to do."

Henry B. Eyring

"The temple will be an ever present reminder

that God intended the family to be eternal."

Ezra Taft Benson