20 Great Quotes About Children's Ministry That You Can Use

Quotes can be a powerful way to emphasize something. They can encourage, equip, inspire, challenge, and motivate people. 

Here are 20 great quotes about children's ministry that you can share with your staff, volunteers, leaders, and parents.

Feel free to use these in your emails, trainings, text messages, etc. 

"Less than 30% of families each meals together at home - it's almost like this - when mom yells 'dinner time' everyone runs for the car." 

"Love your children - and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe that God loves them." -Billy Graham 

"Children learn far more by observing versus them just listening." -Billy Graham

“History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.”  -Nelson Mandela 

"A person is a person, no matter how small."  -Dr. Seuss

“Old men can make war, but it is children who will make history.”  -Ray Merritt

“You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.”  -Charles Spurgeon 

"If I teach my son to keep his eye on the ball but fail to teach him to keep his eyes on Christ, I have failed as a father."  -Voddie Baucham

"It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words." -Dwight L. Moody

"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children." -Chuck Swindoll

To train a boy in the way he should go you must go that way yourself."  - Billy Sunday
 
"When our children see us clinging to the promises of God, they will grow up trusting in His goodness. If we fail as adults in praying for and praying with the next generation, then they will become spiritually unsure."  -Michael Youssef
 
"We will never bring in the Kingdom by simply seeking to save an adult generation. We must give God a chance at the children or the cause of righteousness is going to be defeated. But if we will save the child, we will surely save the world."  -Clovis Chappell
 
"Children need models rather than critics."  -Joseph Joubert
 
"God sees your acts of service."
 
“We believe that children and young people should be the single greatest priority for Christian work in the coming decade.”  -Patrick Johnstone
 
"Work for a cause…not for the applause.” – Grace Lichtenstein 
 
“Children’s ministry is ministering to a person at the most critical time in their life.”   
 
“Children are not just the church of tomorrow. They are the church of today and tomorrow.  They can serve today. They can make an impact now.  They can give now. They can pray big prayers now.  They can lead now.  They can bring people to Jesus now.”