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"Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child."

"Parents are labelling, criticizing and reproaching the child on any account."

"For parents, it is important to respect the personality of a child."

"Children can be told anything-anything. I've always been struck by seeing how little grown-up people understand children, how little parents even understand their own children. Nothing should be concealed from children on the pretext that they are little and that it is too early for them to understand. What a miserable and unfortunate idea! And how readily the children detect that their fathers consider them too little to understand anything, though they understand everything. Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case."

"Never tell a child that something it's too hard."
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"Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning."

"I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe."

"Delighting in the Lord, knowing His Word, and committing yourself to Him are ways to ensure that your plans and desires for yourself match God's plans."

"If you want to live a godly life, then choose to put the things into your mind that lead to living a godly life."

"One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him."

"An ordinary woman who makes herself available to an extraordinary God can do amazing things for God."
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