Quotes about Father
Heavenly Father loves you—each of you. That love never changes.
— Thomas Monson
There is no evil that the father's love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.
— Timothy Keller
To be alone with Jesus in adoration and intimate union with Him is the Greatest Gift of Love - the tender love of Our Father in Heaven.
— Mother Teresa
Father, look upon us in Your goodness and kindness, we pray as a church. Help us to love each other.
— Alistair Begg
Thy father's merit sets thee up to view, And shows thee in the fairest point of light, To make thy virtues, or thy faults, conspicuous.
— Joseph Addison
The sorts of movies my late father had been nuts about.
— Ernest Cline
Don't love the world's ways. Don't love the world's goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.
— Eugene Peterson
Language is not primarily informational but revelatory. The Holy Scriptures give witness to a living voice sounding variously as Father, Son and Spirit, addressing us personally and involving us personally as participants. This text is not words to be studies in the quiet preserves of a library, but a voice to be believed and loved and adored in workplace and playground, on the streets and in the kitchen. Receptivity is required.
— Eugene Peterson
The time and intelligence that our ancestors spent on understanding the sovereignty revealed in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are directed by our contemporaries in affirming and validating the sovereignty of our needs, wants, and feelings.
— Eugene Peterson
If you have anything against someone, forgive — only then will your heavenly Father be inclined to also wipe your slate clean of sins.
— Eugene Peterson
Because a loveless world," said Jesus, "is a sightless world. If anyone loves me, he will carefully keep my word and my Father will love him — we'll move right into the neighborhood! Not loving me means not keeping my words. The message you are hearing isn't mine.
— Eugene Peterson
And don't miss this: In John 6, Jesus said—"I am the Bread of Life. The person who aligns with me hungers no more and thirsts no more, ever.... This is what my Father wants: that anyone who sees the Son and trusts who he is and what he does and then aligns with him will enter real life, eternal life. My part is to put them on their feet alive and whole at the completion time.
— Eugene Peterson