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“The first step to making God a part of every minute of your day is to meet with God daily. The more the Word of God permeates your own life and heart, the more you’ll be able to bring God’s Word into the lives of your children.”
― Clay Clarkson, Heartfelt Discipline: Following God's Path of Life to the Heart of Your Child

“all the evidence to prove that”
― Clay Clarkson, Educating the Wholehearted Child

“You cannot put into your children’s hearts what is not first in your own heart”
― Clay Clarkson, The Lifegiving Parent: Giving Your Child a Life Worth Living for Christ

“Rather than trusting God, many will doggedly hold onto the belief that there is a divinely-designed formula or biblical methodology that can ensure their child’s salvation, and then guarantee the child’s sanctification. That debatable belief often leads to finding special methods in Scripture that come with a promise of success. Soon, though, the parents are no longer trusting God, because they no longer need to—they are trusting the methods instead. Those methods, then, can too easily become rules, and then legalism, and then a reliance on works that replaces a life of faith.”
― Clay Clarkson, Heartfelt Discipline: Following God's Path of Life to the Heart of Your Child

“We need to distinguish between a home that is considered Christian primarily because cultural Christianity happens there and a home that is Christian because Christ is alive and present in perceptible ways. Here’s the reality that needs to be affirmed: A distinctively Christian home can never be defined only by what the children are doing; it must be defined by what the parents are doing.”
― Clay Clarkson, The Lifegiving Parent: Giving Your Child a Life Worth Living for Christ

“home”
― Clay Clarkson, Educating the Wholehearted Child

“The more the Word of God permeates your own life and heart, the more you’ll be able to bring God’s Word into the lives of your children.”
― Clay Clarkson, Heartfelt Discipline: Following God's Path of Life to the Heart of Your Child