Topic(s): Youth

A youth is a person who is going to carry on what you have started. He will assume control of your cities, states, and nations. He is going to take over your churches, schools, and corporations. You may adopt all the policies you please, but how they are carried out depends on him. So it might be well to pay him some attention.

A community club was discussing the proposed establishment of a youth center. A youthful member of the club spoke out in favor of having a young person oversee the center; someone young enough, she said, to know what teenagers really like to do. “Yes,” agreed an older member, “but also old enough to see that they don’t.”

• Young people need control and authority; and without it they are unhappy, confused, frustrated, and miserable. This is one of the psychological secrets that Hitler and Mussolini used so effectively in gaining control of the youth of Germany and Italy.
• If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry. - African Proverb
• Young people do the impossible before they find out it’s impossible—that’s why God uses them so often. - Loren Cunningham
• The destiny of any nation depends on the opinions of its citizens under twenty-five. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Adolescence is that period when a young man can show you the best crop of hair he’ll ever own.
• Adolescence is the awkward age in the life of a youngster. They're too old for an allowance and too young for a credit card.
• A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does . . . and about two years after he thinks he does. - Lewis Hershey

“Let no man despise thy youth…Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth… Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children” - 1 Timothy 4:12; Ecclesiastes 12:1; Ephesians 5:1