I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the children and the elderly. Children learn what they live, and isolation in the ‘village’ is one of the most destructive messages we daily write on the tablets of their hearts.

A church begins to die when it says, ‘They were just children.

Joy is a decision, a really brave one, about how you are going to respond to life.

Nurturing a child’s sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup in a child’s life.

I have become convinced that if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.

I’m convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.

Just know this: What you will do among children is as close to the heart of God and central to his kingdom as anything we could mention.