Parents, make every effort in your power to place your children in the most favorable situation for forming the character that God wants them to form. Use every spiritual sinew and muscle in the effort to save your little flock. The powers of hell will unite for its destruction, but God will lift up for you a standard against the enemy. Pray much more than you do. Lovingly, tenderly, teach your children to come to God as their heavenly Father. By your example teach them self-control and helpfulness. Tell them that Christ lived not to please Himself. CT 156.1 Gather up the rays of divine light that are shining upon your pathway. Walk in the light as Christ is in the light. As you take hold of the work of helping your children to serve God, the most provoking trials will come; but do not lose your hold; cling to Jesus. He says, “Let him take hold of My strength, that he may make peace with Me; and he shall make peace with Me.” Isaiah 27:5 . Difficulties will arise; you will meet with obs…
"Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me."
Ellen White directly references Isaiah 27:5 in this passage.
"And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord."
The EGW passage directly addresses the role of parents in raising children, echoing the sentiment in Ephesians 6:4 about not provoking children and bringing them up in the Lord's ways. The reference to Isaiah 27:5 is also a direct quote.