Annie Besant Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.

  Annie Besant

  Children, Winning, Hands

• The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.

  Annie Besant

  Children, Powerful, Men

  ANNIE BESANT (1911). “THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE”

• Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter; how Isaac meekly submitted; how the farce went on till the lad was bound and laid on the altar, and how God then stopped the murder, and blessed the intending murderer for his willingness to commit the crime.

  Annie Besant

  Beautiful, Children, Father

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.403, Jazzybee Verlag

• The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but yet it does appear to me that the bent to worship is an integral part of man's nature.

  Annie Besant

  Children, Men, Ideas

  Annie Besant (2014). “My Path to Atheism”, p.169, The Floating Press

• To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

  Annie Besant

  Children, Real, Childhood

  Annie Besant (2009). “Autobiographical Sketches”, p.272, Broadview Press

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