{"author":"Wess Stafford","author_id":"Wess+Stafford","total_quotes":19,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Wess Stafford","tags":["busy","caring","children","listening","negative-influence","postive-influence","valuing-children"],"id":5660,"author_id":"Wess+Stafford"},{"text":"The ritual sacrifice of children has been taboo for thousands of years. Yet tragically it is practiced every day across our world. We sacrifice children on the altars of our most destructive sins. When the sickness of pornography has run to its most evil and destructive end, it takes the form of child pornography. When prostitution reaches its sickest, most depraved form, it becomes child prostitution.","author":"Wess Stafford","tags":["child-prostiution","children","sin"],"id":15713,"author_id":"Wess+Stafford"},{"text":"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.","author":"Wess Stafford","tags":["children"],"id":40805,"author_id":"Wess+Stafford"},{"text":"A church begins to die when it says, ‘They were just children.","author":"Wess Stafford","tags":["children","christianity","church"],"id":56780,"author_id":"Wess+Stafford"},{"text":"I’m convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.","author":"Wess Stafford","tags":["children","prayer"],"id":80300,"author_id":"Wess+Stafford"},{"text":"I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.","author":"Wess Stafford","tags":["advocacy","children","poverty"],"id":249972,"author_id":"Wess+Stafford"},{"text":"Children are more than we think they are; they can do more than we think they can do. All they need is a vote of confidence from grownups, whom they will ultimately replace anyway. Their dream today will become the realities of tomorrow.","author":"Wess Stafford","tags":["children","confidence","dreams","future"],"id":260817,"author_id":"Wess+Stafford"},{"text":"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.","author":"Wess Stafford","tags":["children","community","isolation","loneliness"],"id":264709,"author_id":"Wess+Stafford"},{"text":"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.","author":"Wess Stafford","tags":["children","god","mission"],"id":288526,"author_id":"Wess+Stafford"},{"text":"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.","author":"Wess Stafford","tags":["children","hope","love"],"id":330652,"author_id":"Wess+Stafford"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}