When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.
E. Stanley JonesRead
To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Using fear to control children is harmful and detrimental to their development.
This quote by E. Stanley Jones emphasizes the negative impact that instilling fear in children can have on their emotional and psychological growth. It suggests that when parents resort to fear-based control, they do not empower their children but rather allow fear to dominate their lives, which can lead to a lifetime of insecurity and anxiety.
Themes
FearChildrenParentingEducationDevelopment
In practice
Example use cases
A parent might share this quote at a school event to advocate for positive parenting methods.
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A Johns Hopkins doctor says that 'we do not know why it is that the worriers die sooner than the non-worriers, but that is a fact.' But I, who am simple of mind, think I know we are inwardly constructed, in nerve and tissue and brain cell and soul, for faith and not for fear. God made us that way. Therefore, the need of faith is not something imposed on us dogmatically, but it is written in us intrinsically. We cannot live without it. To live by worry is to live against Reality.
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Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.
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An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost, the other a corpse.
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Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
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