Quotes about Father

Your anxiety decreases as your understanding of your father increases.

p. 52 Blessings and burdens. Both can alarm-clock us out of slumber. Gifts stir homeward longings. So do struggles. Every homeless day carries us closer to the day our Father will come.

God doesn't get angry because he doesn't get his way. He gets angry because disobedience always results in self-destruction. What kind of father sits by and watches his child hurt himself?

The God of my childhood was an old, white, Vandyck-bearded Father Time, who roared up thunder, then puffed out His cheeks and blew down hurricanes on His errant children. He could be placated only if one fell prostrate, groveled and begged for mercy. I didn't like that God, but He did seem more real than a Maker who was just thought and spirit. I wished for a Someone in between.

My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be My disciples. John 15:8

My Father, You are the Lord my God. I desire to love You, listen to Your voice, and hold fast to You, for You, Lord, are my life. (Deut. 30:20)

How much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! Matthew 7:11

Do not despise the LORD'S instruction … for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, just as a father, the son he delights in. Proverbs 3:11—12

We observed His glory, the glory as the One and Only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14

Look at how great a love the Father has given us, that we should be called God's children. 1 John 3:1

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens, in Christ. Ephesians 1:3

For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, 'Abba, Father