8 Quotes about Children from Too Small to Ignore: Why Children Are the Next Big Thing (by Wess Stafford)

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Too Small to Ignore: Why Children Are the Next Big Thing quotes about children

It all begins, I maintain, with that powerful and underutilized thing called love. God’s love for the individual is displayed by those people who reflect his love in their words and deeds. It ultimately gets understood and accepted by the child in poverty, and through that individual’s love for others, the world gets changed.

— Wess Stafford, Too Small to Ignore: Why Children Are the Next Big Thing


Children are ingenuous. They are also blessed with uncanny ability to read a person’s character instantly. Even though they are inexperienced and unsophisticated, they often know instinctively who can be trusted and who is the charlatan.

— Wess Stafford, Too Small to Ignore: Why Children Are the Next Big Thing


Watch carefully the children around you. In precious moments you will catch a glimpse of your Savior’s face. Listen intently and you will hear his voice. Walk gently among them; his footprints are all around you. Embrace them, for you are embracing him. Respect them, because they are sometimes God’s agents – exactly the kind of instruments he needs. At such times, only a child will do.

— Wess Stafford, Too Small to Ignore: Why Children Are the Next Big Thing


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.

— Wess Stafford, Too Small to Ignore: Why Children Are the Next Big Thing


…while God has done his part in creating a world capable of providing what we need, we have not done our part in the stewardship of it, in seeing that it gets to the end of the line, to the poorest and neediest–the children.

— Wess Stafford, Too Small to Ignore: Why Children Are the Next Big Thing


Every major movement in world history has recognized the strategic importance of mobilizing children. The Nazis had their Hitler Youth bands. The Chinese Communists had their Red Guards. The Taliban in Afghanistan had their madrash schools to instill extremism in the young. The great omission seems to be unique to Christians.

— Wess Stafford, Too Small to Ignore: Why Children Are the Next Big Thing


But when adults speak up for the vulnerable and the weak, working and demanding that safety and respect prevail, God’s little lambs are protected and nourished. They know they are not abandoned; they are loved. And the world becomes a little more like heaven as a result.

— Wess Stafford, Too Small to Ignore: Why Children Are the Next Big Thing


If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence…you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn’t matter and isn’t important.

— Wess Stafford, Too Small to Ignore: Why Children Are the Next Big Thing