Quotes About Father

At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

If ever I had any doubts about the fundamental realities of religion, they could always be dispelled by one memory- the light upon my father's face as he came back from early communion.

The worshiper is the father of the gods.

If Jesus didn't do it, don't say the Father does. If Jesus did do it, don't say the Father doesn't.

People who say we are just preaching "extreme grace" must not understand how extremely gracious our Father is.

With my old man I got no respect. He told me never take candy from a stranger unless he offered me a ride.

With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

What I respect about my dad is he comes forth and he tells the truth, and he's a very honorable person, I respect him a lot. He, I know deep down, has a good heart.

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.

Our salvation is not in some father or human instruments. It is sad to see people so blinded, worshiping the creature more than the Creator.

my name is Herne. My father is Cernunnos, the Horned One, the Lord of the Forest. He and Morgana sent me. I've come to offer you and your friend jobs and safety, of a sort. My father has agreed that you should join the Wild Hunt. Welcome aboard.

My father built over me a worry big as a shipyard and I left it once, before I was finished, and he remained there with his big, empty worry.

The boy will remain a son and never become a father. He will be forgotten by the crowd once his blood is rinsed clean from the ground; his sister will think of him but soon she will forget him, too. He will live on only in Han's memory, a child punished not for his own insincerity but someone else's disbelief.

Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'égarer. Ton papa est gentil, il est seulement parti devant pour voir comment c'était, m'avait-elle dit.

We must not love the world, nor the things of the world, until the world is sanctified and prepared to be presented to the Father with the Saints upon it; then they will inhabit it for ever and ever.

The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy. Others attain unto a glory and may even be permitted to come into the presence of the Father and the Son; but they cannot reign as kings in glory, because they had blessing offered unto them, and they refused to accept them.

My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.

I grew up fundamentalist, evangelical, Protestant. Those are my roots, and they are good roots. But it means the Pharisees are my people. I grew up with an image of God that was not helpful -- largely the face of my father expanded.

My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.

she tried to weave the strength of her father and the young beauty of her first love with David, the happy oblivion of her teens and her warm protected childhood into a magic cloak.

To keep on track with the Father's plan, He had to spend time with the Father, pour out His heart, gain needed perspective, and get the game plan for the day.

My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.