FAMILY LIFE - Influence on children

家庭生活對兒童的影響
Our children need our presence more than our presents.

我們的孩子需要我們與他們相處（presence）勝過我們給予的禮物（presents）。
A pat on the back is all right provided it is administered early enough, hard enough and low enough.

輕拍孩子的背當作管教沒問題，只是要早一點、堅定一點而且位置低一點。
Many parents give their children everything except themselves.

許多人可以給孩子任何東西就是不把自己給孩子。
The best time to tackle a minor problem is before he grows up.

解決小問題的最佳時刻就是在他成長茁壯之前。
For parents to see a child grow up without Christ is a far greater dereliction of duty than for parents to have children who grow up without learning to read or write.

Donald Grey Barnhouse

對父母而言，看到孩子在沒有基督的情況下長大，是一種遠比看到孩子長大卻不識字不識書的疏忽更大的失職。
There is little hope of children who are educated wickedly.  If the dye have been in the wool, it is hard to get it out of the cloth.

Jeremiah Burroughs

那些接受惡劣教育的孩子幾乎沒有希望。如果染料已經滲入羊毛，要將其從布料中去除就變得困難重重。
A permissive home is a home where you don't love enough to exercise the authority that Christ gave you.

Ben Haden

一個縱容的家是一個你不夠愛到願意實施上帝賦予你權柄的家。
No man or woman ever had a nobler challenge or a higher privilege than to bring up a child for God, and whenever we slight that privilege or neglect that ministry for anything else, we live to mourn it in heartache and grief.

Vance Havner

沒有任何男女能擁有比為上帝養育孩童還崇高的挑戰與特權，無論何時當我們看重別的而輕忽這特權及職分，我們將會在傷心、懊悔中悲慘度日。
It is emphatically not a Christian duty to let a child 'make up its own mind' without first informing, guiding and encouraging him.

Paul Helm

十分值得強調的是若未事先教導、引領及鼓勵孩童就任憑他自作主張，那可不符合基督徒的責任。
Godly parents do not inflict upon their children the cruelty of telling them that they should do 'just as they please.'

William Hendriksen

敬虔的父母不會以如此殘酷的教兒女「只要我喜歡有甚麼不可以」來傷害他們的兒女。
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Theodore M. Hesburgh

一位父親能為他孩子做的最重要事情就是愛他們的母親。
The cure of crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

J. Edgar Hoover

防治罪犯的地方不是電椅，而是嬰兒用餐坐的高腳椅。
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

Harold S. Hulbert

孩子需要愛，尤其是在他們似乎不配得到愛的時候。
It is common sense to put the seal to the wax while it is soft.

Arthur Jackson

趁著臘還軟的時候印上印記，這個是眾所皆知的常識。
Children have more need of models than of critics.

Joseph Joubert

孩童需要榜樣勝於批評。
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

John Locke

父母自己先在源頭下毒，還驚訝為何溪水如此苦毒。
How many careless parents does God's pure eye see among you who will one day, if you turn not, meet your neglected children in an eternal hell!

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

若你不改變，在上帝潔淨的目光中將看到多少粗心的父母將在永恆的地獄中遇見被你們忽略的孩子。
The parent's life is the child's copybook.

John Partridge

父母的生活是孩子的習字帖。
The best way to beat the devil is to hit him over the head with a cradle.

Billy Sunday

打擊魔鬼的最佳方法就是用搖籃狠狠的敲它的頭。
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversational in a child's home.

William Temple

一切教育因素中最具影響力的就是孩童家裡的談話。
I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians of England.

John Wesley

我從母親學到的基督信仰遠超過從全英倫神學家學得的。
Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

Bern Williams

遲早我們都會引述母親說過的話。
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom laster give.

P. D. James

孩提時候得不到的，長大後也吝於付出。
Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs.

Michael Levine

我們希望子女怎樣過日子，自己應先如此生活。