Fred was giving the children's message (about God's never-ending
grace) at Trinity Church United Methodist. He brought along several food items with expiration dates, and explained about shelf life and how you have to use items before the expiration date. One food item had an expiration date that was in a week, one was two weeks... for the Twinkies, the shelf life was over a year. One child got the message, exclaiming, "God's love lasts longer than a Twinkie!" -- Cathie Kreigh (wife of Fred) of Kendallville, Indiana
 

Of all people, children are the most imaginative

Thomas Macaulay

The child-heart is open to any and all avenues; an angel would no more surprise it than a man. In dreams, in visions, in visible and invisible ways, God can talk and reveal Himself to a child; but this profound yet simple way is lost forever-immediately we lose the open, childlike nature.

Oswald Chambers

Children know the grace of God better than most of us, they see the world the way the morning brings it back to them, new and born and fresh and wonderful.

Archibald MacLeish

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.

Kate Douglas Wiggins

They are idols of hearts and households; they are angels of God in disguise; His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses, His glory still gleams in their eyes; those truants from home and heaven they have made me more manly and mild; and I know how Jesus could liken the kingdom of God to a child.

Charles Dickens

The soul is healed by being with children.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?

And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,

And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.