Quotes about Father

The heart of the Father is always to put us back on track, a little wiser, and ever grateful for another chance.

Abba is best translated "Dear Father." It is a term of intimacy, but it also contains a sense of obedience.

The Holy One's nearness, the readiness to name the Holy One as God, and the recognition of God as Father.

And call no man your father on earth …" No religious leader is to be called father. How clear is that? Don't call people "father" for "… you have one Father who is in heaven" (v. 9).

As a father, you are patterning your discipline after your heavenly Father, whom your children need to realize you deeply respect and love.

Unfortunately, the sinner isn't always the victim. Why should it be? said Mathews. Nature does not work by a scheme of poetical justice. Nor does God, said Perry. We suffer for one another, as, indeed, we must, being all members one of another. Can you separate the child from the father, the man from the brute, or even the man from the vegetable cell...?

It is at this point we begin to understand what St. Hilary means in saying of the Trinity: "Eternity is in the Father, form in the Image and use in the Gift.

Jesus would heal her past and take care of her todays and her tomorrows. Her Good Father held her future in His Hands.

I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father's clear valuing of it. I knew that was what my dad really cared about.

Since I carry my father's name, I believe it is my responsibility to use that name as he would have to support the causes that were so dear to his heart. Dad strongly supported Huckabee when no one thought that he had any chance to succeed in the presidential race.

Family really meant almost nothing to me for many years but then, to my enormous surprise, when I met my partner James I found myself re-engaging and re-connecting. My mother died in 1977 but I got to know my father as an adult, and he got on well with James. A rapprochement with my whole family followed.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?