Charles Spurgeon - 12 Quotes for when Parenting Feels Hard

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  1. “Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself.”
  2. “Teach the children the three R’s—Ruin, Redemption, and Regeneration.”
  3. “Let his first little prayers be noticed by you.”
  4. “Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties.”
  5. “Let us from the beginning mingle the name of Jesus with their A B C. Let them read their first lessons from the Bible.”
  6. “What a blessing to have our children enlisted in Christ’s army!”
  7. “Tell the child that he is dead in trespasses and sins, let there be no doubt about his natural condition.”
  8. “If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.”
  9. “Teach the little ones the whole truth and nothing but the truth.”
  10. “Tell him he must be born again. . . . Be tender, but be true.”
  11. “Gather the little ones around your knee and listen to their words, suggesting to them their needs, and reminding them of God’s gracious promise.”
  12. “Set before your child life and death, hell and heaven, judgment and mercy, his own sin, and Christ’s most precious blood.”