Quotes About Father

As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and that only by picking up God's rhythms were we able to regain power and beauty. Unlike many Presbyterians, he often used the word "beautiful.

They're fathers second, Jimmy said. They're men first.

Babam beni mektebe götürdü?ü zaman, çantamla birlikte art?k uzun bir hayat tecrübesini de omzumda ta??yordum. Bir de Vatan denen bir ?ey vard? ki, çok iyi korunmas? gerekiyordu. Bizler, her sabah hep bir a??zdan onu özümüzden çok sevdi?imizi, ant denen bir ?ey içerek hayk?r?yorduk.

?nsan?n babas? hayatta bir kere ölür.

Babas?, ö?renci olan o?luna, arada bir aferin, diyor. Ocakç?, kendi bilmi? gibi sevinçli: gülümsüyor. Bat dünya bat. Böyle giderse her mahallede bir Dostoyevski ç?kacak Olric. Dünya borsalar?nda Dostoyevski hisseleri dü?ecek. Her hafta bir Karamazov, yeralt?n?z kadar yeralt?.

And Dad beams when people tell him how smart and industrious I am. I love him. He's the best person I know, and I care what he thinks. I wish I didn't, but I do.

The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.

If a father commands a son to commit a crime so terrible that the son can't do it and live with himself, then is it betrayal for the son to disobey his father?

Around that time, I lost interest in college. I could only see blackness before me, I didn't know what to do. It was no easy matter to prevent my father from criticizing my loafing around the house and my mother from seeing me as unworthy.

Father," I tried calling out. Father. Father, the sunset afterglow is beautiful.

Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken "toys," but as our Father.

your god may be your little Christian habit - the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your Father will upset your schedule if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit symbolizes. We say, 'I can't do that right now; this is my time alone with God.' No, this is your time alone with your habit.

Any problem that comes while I obey God (and there will be many), increases my overjoyed delight, because I know that my Father knows and cares, and I can watch and anticipate how He will unravel my problems.

In the midst of the awfulness, a touch comes and you know it is the right hand of Jesus Christ. The right hand not of restraint nor of correction nor of chastisement, but the right hand of the Everlasting Father. Whenever His hand is laid upon you, it is ineffable peace and comfort, the sense that "underneath are the everlasting arms," full of sustaining and comfort and strength. My Utmost for His Highest: Classic Edition

The main idea in the region of religion is—Your eyes upon God, not on men. Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door and talk to God in secret. Have no other motive than to know your Father in heaven. It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer:

The reason for prayer is intimacy of relation with our Father.

Your god may be your little Christian habit—the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your Father will upset your schedule if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit symbolizes.

We cannot discover the source of our natural life through common sense and reasoning, and Jesus is teaching here that growth in our spiritual life comes not from focusing directly on it, but from concentrating on our Father in heaven. Our heavenly Father knows our circumstances, and if we will stay focused on Him, instead of our circumstances, we will grow spiritually—just as "the lilies of the field.

In the midst of the awesomeness, a touch comes, and you know it is the right hand of Jesus Christ. You know it is not the hand of restraint, correction, nor chastisement, but the right hand of the Everlasting Father. Whenever His hand is laid upon you, it gives inexpressible peace and comfort, and the sense that "underneath are the everlasting arms" (Deuteronomy 33:27), full of support, provision, comfort, and strength.

Is the Son of God praying in me, bringing honor to the Father, or am I dictating my demands to Him?

His Spirit, and it works on this principle—God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget, why should I worry? There

God is my Father, He loves me, and I will never think of anything that He will forget, so why should I worry?

Mi a különbség édesapám és az Isten közt? A különbség jól látható: Isten mindenütt ott van, ezzel szemben édesapám is mindenütt ott van, csak itt nincs.

his father had taught him when he was still a boy that men should always show respect for women because women carried inside them the place where life began.