51 Encouraging Christian Parenting Quotes
Here are some of my favorite Christian parenting quotes! These inspirational quotes are uplifting and encouraging parents to treasure their family and love one another.
You will find tons of parenting quotes all over the internet. Some are funny, some are encouraging, and some are actually quite sad to read.
I decided to make a round up of all my favorite Godly parenting quotes. These are some of the best ways to give encouragement for Christian parents.
All of these are hopeful and talk about raising your children how God would want you to raise them. I’ve broken them up into categories so you can find exactly what you are looking for!
Inspiring Christian Parenting Quotes
“The most important work you will ever do will be within the walls of your own home.”
-Harold B. Lee
“You are as much serving God in looking after your own children, training them up in God’s fear, minding the house, and making your household a church for God as you would be if you had been called to lead an army to battle for the Lord of Hosts.”
-Charles Spurgeon
“We don’t want to limit what God can do in our children by trying to parent them alone-Trust God to take care of them.”
-Stormie Omartian
“Children are truly a blessing from God. Unfortunately, they don’t come with an instruction manual. But there’s no better place to find advice on parenting than the Word of God, which reveals a heavenly Father who loves us and calls us His children. It contains great examples of godly parents. It gives direct instructions on how to parent, and it is filled with many principles we can apply as we strive to be the best parents we can be.”
-Adrian Rogers
“The goal of parenting isn’t to create perfect kids. It’s to point our kids to the perfect God.“
-Lindsey Bell
“If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do.”
-Jeffrey R. Holland
“No parent gives mercy better than one who is convinced that he desperately needs it himself.”
-Paul Tripp
“Our children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you’ve done will have mattered as much.”
-Lisa Wingate
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“As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy of emulation? Do we live in such a way that a son or a daughter may say, ‘I want to follow my dad,’ or ‘I want to be like my mother’? Unlike the book on the library shelf, the covers of which shield its contents, our lives cannot be closed. Parents, we truly are an open book in the library of learning of our homes.”
-Gordon B. Hinckley
“Marriage and family life are ordained of God. In an eternal sense, salvation is a family affair. God holds parents responsible for their stewardship in rearing their family. It is a most sacred responsibility.”
-Ezra Taft Benson
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Christian Quotes on Motherhood
“The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever.”
-Jeffrey R. Holland
“What is a godly mother? A godly mother is one who loves the Lord her God with all her heart, soul, mind, and strength and then passionately, consistently, and unrelentingly teaches her child to do the same.”
-Elizabeth George
“Motherhood is not a hobby, it is a calling. It is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in, it is what God gave you time for.”
-Rachel JanKovic
“No nobler work in this world can be performed by any mother than to rear and love the children with whom God has blessed her. That is her duty.”
-David O. McKay
“There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.”
-Jill Churchill
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“There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.”
-James E. Faust
“There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.”
-Boyd K. Packer
“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual, and physical education I received from her.”
-George Washington
“Perhaps the reason we respond so universally to our mothers’ love is because it typifies the love of our Savior.”
-Bradley D. Foster
Enjoy these bible verses for struggling moms.
Godly Father Quotes
“The happiest and holiest children in the world are the children whose fathers succeed in winning both their tender affection and their reverential and loving fear. And they are the children who will come to understand most easily the mystery of the fatherhood of God.”
-John Piper
“One of the greatest things a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
-Howard W. Hunter
“Perhaps the most essential of a father’s work is to turn the hearts of his children to their Heavenly Father. If by his example as well as his words a father can demonstrate what fidelity to God looks like in day-to-day living, that father will have given his children the key to peace in this life and eternal life in the world to come.”
D. Todd Christofferson
“Let the father be the head of the family, the master of his own household; and let him treat them as an angel would treat them.”
-Brigham Young
“There is no other relationship quite like that which can and should exist between a boy and his dad. It can be one of the most nurturing, joyful relationships in life, one that can have a profound impact on who boys become and also on who dads become.”
-M. Russell Ballard
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
-Henry Ward Beecher
“The sacred title of ‘father’ is shared with the Almighty. … Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth; it is a matter of desire, diligence and determination to see one’s family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.”
-Ezra Taft Benson
“ ’Father’ is the noblest title a man can be given. It is more than a biological role. It signifies a patriarch, a leader, an exemplar, a confidant, a teacher, a hero, a friend and, ultimately, a perfect being.”
-Robert L. Backman
“A father’s duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy. He cannot do this when there is bickering, quarreling, contention or unrighteous behavior. The powerful effect of righteous fathers in setting an example, disciplining and training, nurturing and loving is vital to the spiritual welfare of his children.”
-Ezra Taft Benson
“With the obligation to beget goes the responsibility to nurture, to protect, to teach, to guide in righteousness and truth. Yours is the power and the responsibility to preside in a home where there is peace and security, love and harmony.”
-Gordon B. Hinckley
Read these scriptures for fathers next!
Christian Quotes About Family
“It is impossible to overstate the need for prayer in the fabric of family life.”
-James Dobson
“The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things… but rather a legacy of character and faith.”
-Billy Graham
“Children spell love with 4 letters T-I-M-E.”
-Max Lucado
“Fathers and mothers, your foremost responsibility is your family. By working together you can have the kind of home the Lord expects you to have. By showing love and consideration for one another and for your children, you can build a reservoir of spiritual strength that will never run dry.”
-Spencer W. Kimball
“In family relationships, love is really spelled “TIME.” Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home. We talk with, rather than about, each other.”
-Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“For me, the old saying “The family that prays together stays together” could be expanded to “The family that prays together is together, even when they are far apart.”
-Henry B. Eyering
“My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all – the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.”
-Mitt Romney
“Let us be more determined to make [righteous] homes, to be kinder husbands, more thoughtful wives, more exemplary to our children, determined that in our homes we are going to have just a little taste of heaven here on this earth.”
-David O. McKay
“Fathers and mothers, your foremost responsibility is your family. By working together you can have the kind of home the Lord expects you to have. By showing love and consideration for one another and for your children, you can build a reservoir of spiritual strength that will never run dry.”
-Spencer W. Kimball
Quotes About Being a New Parent
“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.”
-C.S. Lewis
“God never calls you to a task without giving you what you need to do it. He never sends you without going with you.”
-Paul Tripp
“Your greatest contribution to the kingdom of God may not be something you do, but someone you raise.”
-Andy Stanely
“You were born to lead as mothers and fathers because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family.”
-Sheri Dew
“Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration.”
-James E. Faust
“If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.”
-Gordon B. Hinckley
“A home is much more than a house built of lumber, brick, or stone. A home is made of love, sacrifice, and respect. We are responsible for the homes we build. We must build wisely, for eternity is not a short voyage. There will be calm and wind, sunlight and shadows, joy and sorrow. But if we really try, our home can be a bit of heaven here on earth. The thoughts we think, the deeds we do, the lives we live not only influence the success of our earthly journey, they also mark the way to our eternal goals.”
-Thomas S. Monson
Quotes About Parents Teaching Children
“Parents, what are your children learning from your worship? Do they see the same excitement as when you go to a basketball game? Do they see you prepare for worship as you do for a vacation? Do they see you hungry to arrive, seeking the face of the Father? Or do they see you content to leave the way you came?…..They are watching. Believe me. They are watching.”
-Max Lucado
“Give to your children the grace, love and forgiveness that God has given you.”
-Carolina Frederick
“If children are to be brought up in the way they should go, to be good citizens here and happy hereafter, they must be taught. It is idle to suppose that children will grow up good, while surrounded with wickedness, without cultivation. It is folly to suppose that they can become learned without education.”
-Joseph Smith
“But whatever the era, whatever the times, one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first. You must read to your children and you must hug your children and you must love your children. Your success as a family, our success as a society, depends not on what happens in the White House but on what happens inside your house.”
-Barbara Bush
“The Father of all mankind expects parents, as his representatives, to assist him in shaping and guiding human lives and immortal souls. That is the highest assignment which the Lord can bestow upon man.”
-David O. McKay
“A popular song includes the words, ‘There are angels among us.’ These angels are quite frequently the precious little ones God, our Father, has entrusted to our earthly care. To them may we teach prayer, inspire faith, live truth, and honor God. Then we shall have heavenly homes and forever families.”
-Thomas S. Monson
Christian Quotes About Parenting Wrap-Up
Hopefully you have enjoyed these family Christian quotes as much as I have. They always seem to uplift me when I am struggling or feeling down as a parent.
You are doing God’s work raising your children. You are doing your best, and that is enough in the eye’s of God!
