Father Quotes

... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.

The eternal everlasting God has become our Father and the moment we realize that, it transforms everything.

My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'

We were never created to settle for mere religion. Jesus did not die so that we could have a religious belief system - but rather a life-giving relationship with our Father.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.

Son, you outgrew my lap, but never my heart.

My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

You are blinded and you serve the God of the Jews, who is not the God of love but the God of hatred. Why don't you listen to Christ Himself, who said to the Jews: "Ye are of your father the devil!"

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom except we have, we can neither love God, nor keep His commandments?

I knew your father before you did, and I don't think he'd be too proud of what you're doing right now.

Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father's active goodness and unrestricted love.

What I am is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and an artist. I am a man who loves his people and wants to go home.

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, 'I and my Father are One.'

Worship must be - Christ centered, Holy Spirit led, a Response to the Father, about Intimacy and Service and always lead to Transformation!

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

My father was swallowed alive by his own anus. It was a terrible way to go.

Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule.

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.

My mother was an ex-nun, and my father was a Franciscan brother, so I grew up believing in Jesus the way anyone would believe in Mom's first husband.

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father.

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.

You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.

God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and each person is fully God, and there is one God.

I never made a sacrifice. Of this we ought not to talk when we remember the great sacrifice which he made who left His Father's throne on high to give Himself for us.

Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

You can look forward with hope, because one day there will be no more separation, no more scars, and no more suffering in My Fathers House. It's the home of your dreams!

The central purpose of all scripture is to fill our souls with faith in God the Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ.

It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father's will-and it was his love for sinners like me.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me... I was a father.

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.

The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.

Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's.

I believe God wrote the Word in your essence. That's the genius of my Father. You are born knowing right from wrong. You don't need a book to tell you that!

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.

The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.

In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest distance to the father's house.

Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony