RELEVANT CHILDREN'S MINISTRY

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

One of the most important tasks we have is to encourage our volunteers. They can get overwhelmed and exhausted at times. 

An encouraging quote spoken at the right time can help them refocus on their ministry role and remind them of why they are doing what they are doing.

Here are 20 great quotes you can use to encourage and empower your volunteers.  

Share them verbally.  Put them in writing.  Use them in an email. Text them to one of your volunteers who needs an encouraging word.  Use them when you are doing a volunteer meeting.

Here you go. 20 great quotes to encourage your volunteers.

“Anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.”  -Fred Rogers

“A child needs your love most when they deserve it least.”  -Erma Bombeck

“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. Suess

“Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate.” 

“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” -John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States

 “If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God!” -Dwight L. Moody, evangelist

“Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.”  -Mark 9:37

"Children are our most valuable resource.” -Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States

 “Children make your life important.” -Erma Bombeck

“The first happiness of a child is to know that he is loved.”  -Don Bosco

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” -William Arthur Ward

“Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.”           -Wess Stafford

“Children are not only our future, but also our present. They are the inspiration and motivation that fuel our progress, reminding us of the responsibility to build a world where their dreams can become a reality.”

“The most precious jewels you’ll ever have around your neck are the arms of your children.” -Unknown

“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” -Dr. John Trainer

“Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate.” -Unknown

“The future of the world is in my classroom today.”               -Ivan Welton Fitzwater

“A child is an uncut diamond.” -Austin O’Malley

“Kids go where there is excitement, they stay where there is love.”  -Zig Ziglar

Quotes are a great way to encourage volunteers and inspire them to give their best to such a noble cause. 

Earlier this year, I shared 20 great quotes about children's ministry.  Here are 20 more that you can use to get your volunteer team fired up and ready to reach the greatest mission field...the children of the world we live in.

"Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.” 

“Children are our most valuable resource.”            – Herbert Hoover

 “You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.”             -Barbara Bush

"Children make your life important.”              -Erma Bombeck

“The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.” – Ray L. Wilbur

"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children."                          – Charles R. Swindoll

 “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.” – Fred Rogers

“We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.”   — Stacia Tauscher

“The soul is healed by being with children.”    — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 “A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.”   — Carl Sandburg

“Anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.”  -Fred Rogers

“The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.”   — Orlando Aloysius Battista

“Children will listen to you after they feel listened to.” – Jane Nelsen

“Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.”                             – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam  

“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.” – W.E.B. Du Bois

“The first happiness of a child is to know that he is loved.” – Don Bosco

“Kids spell love T-I-M-E.” – John Crudele

“Every day, in a 100 small ways, our children ask, ‘Do you hear me? Do you see me? Do I matter?’ Their behavior often reflects our response.”  - L.R. Knost

“Encouraging a child means that one or more of the following critical life messages are coming through, either by word or by action: I believe in you, I trust you, I know you can handle this, You are listened to, You are cared for, You are very important to me.”                      - Barbara Coloroso

“A spirited, unruly student is preferable. It’s much easier to direct passion than to try and inspire it.” -Joan Desmond