Quotes about Fatherhood

As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

For you know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children—

I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whose father I became while I was in chains.

Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?

Being a dad is the greatest, except for assembling things.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there.

I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, "I want a Dad." But you won't abide in anyone.

That is the kind of shocking accessibility conveyed in Jesus' word Abba. God may be the Sovereign Lord of the Universe, but through his Son, God has made himself as approachable as any doting human father.

In 2008, then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama told an audience, "Children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools, and twenty times more likely to end up in prison.

In a certain sense God has committed to every father the responsibility to embody, as a person, the ultimate revelation of the Bible, fatherhood. To be a real father is the most perfect depiction of God that any man can achieve, because it is the ultimate revelation of God Himself. In fact, every father represents God to his family. That is not an option! The question is, Do you as a father represent God rightly or wrongly?