Quotes About Fatherhood

So we said to my lord, ëThe boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.í

and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled until you reached this place.”

So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.

Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.

The king was shaken and went up to the gate chamber and wept. And as he walked, he cried out, “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

But the king covered his face and cried out at the top of his voice, “O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!”

As the time drew near for David to die, he charged his son Solomon,

Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.

though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my motherís womb I guided the widow—

As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.

for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.

Listen, my sons, to a fatherís instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.

So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.

Now, my sons, listen to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of a son is his father.

A man fathers a fool to his own grief; the father of a fool has no joy.

A foolish son is his fatherís ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.

The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.

or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.

I will clothe him with your robe and tie your sash around him. I will put your authority in his hand, and he will be a father to the dwellers of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

Then I said, ëHow I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!í I thought you would call Me ëFatherí and never turn away from following Me.

They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israelís Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”

Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?