Quotes about Divine Fatherhood
Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?
- Deuteronomy 32:6
I will proclaim the decree spoken to Me by the LORD: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.
- Psalm 2:7
He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.’
- Psalm 89:26
Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
- Isaiah 63:16
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.
- Romans 4:17
Your real Father is God. He's the only Father who will never disappoint you. And from the time He formed you in your mother's womb, He already knew you and loved you more than Karl Bauer or any other man ever could.
- Lynn Austin
For this purpose we will benefit most from the great passages of scripture that clearly show us our Father in relation to his creation and his earthly family. These are passages such as Genesis 1 or 15; Exodus 19; 1 Kings 8; 2 Chronicles 16 and 19; Nehemiah 9; many of the psalms (34, 37, 91, and 103, for example); Isaiah 30, 44, and 56—66; Luke 11; Romans 8; Philippians 4.
- Dallas Willard
You are loved by your maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your father.
- Max Lucado
God designed human fatherhood to be a portrait of himself.
- John Piper
God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
- Bill Hybels
I did not have that privilege, just as many of you did not, but fortunately, we have a Father we can go to now with the promise of never being rejected. A Father Who is far better than even the best earthly father in the world.
- Joyce Meyer