Quotes about Father
He can no longer have God for a Father, who has not the Church for a Mother.
- John Henry Newman
Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?
- John Milton
Faith receives, day by day, what a loving Heavenly Father apportions.
- Elisabeth Elliot
If therefore the Father is the God of Christ and the same one is our God, and if there is no God but one, there can be no God beside the Father.
- John Milton
His weakness shall o'ercome Satanic strength, And all the world, and mass of sinful flesh; That all the Angels and aethereal Powers— They now, and men hereafter—may discern From what consummate virtue I have chose This perfet man, by merit called my Son, To earn salvation for the sons of men. So spake the Eternal Father, and all Heaven Admiring stood a space;
- John Milton
But of that day and hour no one knows neither the angels in heaven nor the Son but only the Father.' We are not to think that the Son of God as he is God did not know the day or hour but only that his human nature did not know it because his divine nature had not chosen to reveal it to his human nature.
- John Owen
The Holy Spirit is said to be the divine, eternal, mutual love of the Father and the Son.
- John Owen
But where this Spirit of liberty and boldness is, the heart is enlarged with a true, genuine openness and readiness to express all its concerns unto God as a child unto its father.
- John Owen
In truth, the Christian hope rests not ultimately upon our own diligence, but on God's faithfulness.30 It is God, not us, who will ultimately persevere, and that is why he is able to promise us eternal life: "where the promise is, there is all this assistance. The faithfulness of the Father, the grace of the Son, and the power of the Spirit, all are engaged in our preservation.
- John Owen
I was too old for my father to (be protective), too young to be flattered.
- Catherine Marshall
Have mercy, and forgive us, Father. We've saved our sacred images, but sacrificed Your image within our souls.
- Cathy Gohlke
Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.
- Gordon Hinckley