Wess Stafford Quotes

There is nothing to be intimidated about – it’s just another long run where a few more people show up and they happen to wear numbers.

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

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.

To be compassionate in this hurting world means it will cost you something.

So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?

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.

I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.

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.

One changed child eventually changes a family. A changed family will influence change in its church. Enough changed churches will transform a community. Changed communities change regions. Changed regions will in time change an entire nation.

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.

We absolutely must battle with every bit of determination we can muster to root out the harm that would warp the souls and spirits of children in our world.

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

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.

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

What’s your cause? Does it move you to tears? What is it that moves you passionately?