Quotes about Son
As the beloved son, I have to claim my full dignity and begin preparing myself to become the father.
- Henri Nouwen
Once I look at the story of the prodigal son with the eyes of faith, the "return" of the prodigal becomes the return of the Son of God who has drawn all people into himself and brings them home to his heavenly Father. As Paul says: "God wanted all fullness to be found in him and through him to reconcile all things to him, everything in heaven and everything on earth.
- Henri Nouwen
The father's touching the son is an everlasting blessing; the son resting against his father's breast is an eternal peace. Christian Tümpel writes: "The moment of receiving and forgiving in the stillness of its composition lasts without end. The movement of the father and the son speaks of something that passes not, but lasts forever.
- Henri Nouwen
What I am called to make true is that whether I am the younger or the elder son, I am the son of my compassionate Father.
- Henri Nouwen
The owner of the vineyard, after having sent in vain several stewards to collect his share of the harvest, decides to send "his beloved son." The tenants recognize that he is the heir and kill him to obtain the inheritance for themselves. This is the picture of the true son who obeys his father, not as a slave, but as the Beloved, and fulfills the will of the Father in full unity with him.
- Henri Nouwen
be incapable of ministering to everyone God sends you unless you have His love. You cannot forgive others or go the extra mile with others or sacrifice for others unless you have first been filled with the boundless love of God. Seek to know the Father and His immeasurable love; then allow His Son to love others through you!
- Henry Blackaby
My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences.
- David Wilkerson
Prayer is privileged access to the God of the universe, bought and paid for by the blood of His Son on our account for all those who freely receive Him as Lord.
- Stephen Kendrick
It will be no ordinary birth but a virgin birth because the birth of righteousness and love in this stern world is always a virgin birth. It is never men nor the nations of men nor all the power and wisdom of men that bring it forth but always God, and that is why the angel says, 'The child to be born will be called the Son of God.
- Frederick Buechner
It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that His Resurrection was announced.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
But if Christ was not all that He said He was, namely, the Son of the living God, the Word of God in the flesh, then He was not "just a good man" then He was a knave, a liar, a charlatan and the greatest deceiver who ever lived.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
As our love does not start with Mary, so neither does it stop with Mary. Mary is a window through which our humanity first catches a glimpse of Divinity on earth. Or perhaps she is more like a magnifying glass; she intensifies our love of her Son and makes our prayers more bright and burning.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen