Quotes About Father

The father is at rest in will. Nothing happens without the father's pleasure, nothing happens without the father's will. And his will is incomprehensible. His will is his footprint, but none can understand him, nor does he exist so that they might study him32 in order to grasp him.

One who does not understand how the body that a person wears came to be will perish with it. "How will someone who does not know the son know the [father]? "All things are hidden from one who does not know the root of all things.

If they ask you, 'What is the evidence of your father in you?' say to them, 'It is motion and rest.'"93

The spirit came to this person in haste when the person was awakened. Having given its hand to the one lying prone on the ground, it placed him firmly on his feet, for he had not yet stood up.36 This gave them the means of knowing the knowledge of the father and the revelation of his son. For when they saw it and listened to it, he permitted them to take a taste of and to smell and to grasp the beloved son.

But ignorance of the father brought terror and fear, and terror grew dense like a fog, so that no one could see.

Rather, they are letters of truth; they speak and know themselves. Each letter is a perfect truth13 like a perfect book, for they are letters written in unity, written by the father for the eternal realms, so that by means of his letters they might come to know the father.

God the Father invented the family. He's the one who determines its meaning, purpose, and role. He's the one who instituted marriage as a lifelong covenant between husband and wife. He's the one who enables couples to be fruitful and multiply. He's the Pat?r (Father) from whom every patria (family) in heaven and earth is named. Marriage and family were created by Him and exist for Him.

As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.

Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious.

church organist for the past twenty-one years, stroked the last notes of "Faith of Our Fathers." The next several minutes were ritual Catholic routine—up, down, sit, up, down, sit. When the calisthenics ended, Father Benedict stood before the pulpit and gazed out at his congregation.

But there's nothing like the silence of early morning. Your father used to love to sit on the back porch with his first cup of coffee, just gazing out at the hills.

Work is often the father of pleasure.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Heaven needed an angel and god sent for you, You are gone from me forever, Now what am I to do, I miss you now like never before, But I have to let you go, I will never forget you and this I need you to know, My heart breaks of sadness for the one that I adore, Your father in heaven has sent for you and he needs you more, Goodbye until we meet again, in my heart you'll always be, For always you will remain my sweetest memory.

Her father had arranged it. He'd as good as sold her to Wendell to pay off debts. She looked down at her daughter and wondered if her father owed more money. Audra had a little sister, Carolyn. Would her father sell Carolyn to some brute? There was a baby brother, Isaac. He might not be such a commodity as a girl, but he might already be learning to behave in the image of her father.

the bowl from her hands. "Careful, it's hot." Rafe moved fast, setting it down on the table. "Told me that a little late." "Father is mostly asleep.

I am a soldier in my father's army.

I shan't make a fuss over the babe's father.

I picked the Scholar's or the Chancellor's doors or—especially fun for me—the Timekeeper's, resetting his clock and timepieces? That had especially angered my father, but I'd only done it hoping it would create an extra hour in his day for me.

For Walther. For Greta. For all the dreams that were gone. The stealer of dreams would steal no more, even if it meant killing the Komizar myself. My own mother may have betrayed me by suppressing my gift, but she was right about one thing. I am a soldier in my father's army. I glanced up at Kaden riding beside me. Maybe now it was I who would become the assassin.

He were to take back His Spirit and withdraw His breath, all humanity would turn to dust (Job 34:14)! He doesn't, because of the extravagant and passionate love He has for His creation; and nothing, not all powers of heaven or hell, can ever separate the love of the Father from the children He created (Romans 8:38–39).

A father had to work only half as hard as any mother to be considered twice as good.

Fate is our master," I thought. "Yesterday a king, and today a tumbler's man. I hope my father never hears of it.