Father Quotes

Don't worry, Even Jesus never saw his real father

- J. Cole

All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. ... God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in distress has the same right to be protected.

- Francis of Assisi

Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing.

- Ellen G. White

The Heavenly Father does not ask for golden vessels. He does not ask for silver vessels. God asks for yielded vessels.

- Kathryn Kuhlman

Whoever leads an auspicious life here and governs the commonwealth rightly, as my most noble father did, who promoted all piety and banished all ignorance, has a most certain way to heaven.

- Henry VIII of England

When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

- Mark Twain

Foreigners are sending messages to the planets. We are sending rice and cereals to our dead fore-father through the Brahmins. It is a wise deed?

- Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

The piano by its black and white keys always attracted me, my father showed me how to use... and slowly I got into playing.

- Richard Clayderman

By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong.

- Charles Wadsworth

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate

- Chinua Achebe

Make us eternal truths receive, And practice all that we believe: Give us thyself, that we may see The Father and the Son, by thee.

- Charlemagne

Hear me people: We have now to deal with another race - small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.

- Sitting Bull

Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day. Either He will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it. Be at peace, then, put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations, and say continually: 'The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart has trusted in Him and I am helped. He is not only with me but in me and I in Him.'

- Saint Francis de Sales

People say the cross is a sign of how much man is worth. That’s not true. The cross is a sign of how depraved we really are, that it took the death of God’s own Son. The only thing that could save a people like us was the death of God’s own Son under the wrath of His own Father paying the price, rising again from the dead. Powerful to say, this is the Gospel of Jesus.

- Paul Washer

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

- Bryan Stevenson

Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Faith dare the soul to go further than it can see.

- William Clark

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."

- Desmond Tutu

If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.

- Charles Stanley

Our heavenly Father never takes anything from his children unless he means to give them something better.

- George Muller

We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.

- Pope John Paul II

Even if [the Pope an incarnate devil], we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his bosom... He who rebels against our Father is condemned to death, for that which we do to him we do to Christ: we honor Christ if we honor the Pope; we dishonor Christ if we dishonor the Pope.

- St. Catherine of Siena

As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.

- Julian of Norwich

God takes pleasure to see you take your little steps; and like a good father who holds his child by the hand, He will accommodate His steps to yours and will be content to go no faster than you. Why do you worry?

- Saint Francis de Sales

My father had a very simple view of life: you don’t get anything for nothing. Everything has to be earned, through work, persistence and honesty. My father also had a deep charm, the gift of winning our trust. He was the kind of man with whom many people dream of spending an evening.

- Grace Kelly

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

- James Dobson

Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth.

- John Henrik Clarke

We`re all going to have to learn to live together and develop a greater tolerance and get rid off whatever our fathers gave us in the way of hatred between nations.

- Joe Strummer

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

- Louis L'Amour

My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way

- Ali Shariati

Do not look forward to the changes and chances of this life in fear; rather look to them with full hope that, as they arise, God, whose you are, will deliver you out of them. He is your keeper. He has kept you hitherto. Do you but hold fast to his dear hand, and he will lead you safely through all things; and, when you cannot stand, he will bear you in his arms. Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow. Our Father will either shield you from suffering, or he will give you strength to bear it.

- Saint Francis de Sales

My father has been by my side since I was little. He takes care of things, my finances and my family.

- Neymar

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

- James Meredith

If homes are going to survive, it will be because husbands and fathers again place their families at the highest level on their system of priorities.

- James Dobson

Do you know who taught the eagles to find their prey? Well, that same God teaches His hungry children to find their Father in His Word.

- William Tyndale

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.

- Paul Robeson

Watch over me, Father, so that everything I do may be with the intention of pleasing Jesus.

- Bernadette Soubirous

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.

- Hank Williams, Jr.

The Father doesn't give life directions in one big bundle because the goal is knowing Him, not the plan.

- Louie Giglio

Don't chase accomplishments , people or positions to find your worth. You're already loved as you are by the Father.

- Chris Tomlin

My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.

- James Rainwater

Now may the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the eternal high priest himself, the Son of God Jesus Christ, build you up in faith and truth and in all gentleness and in all freedom from anger and forbearance and steadfastness and patient endurance and purity.

- Polycarp

It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing--it's another! It's always something.

- Gilda Radner

Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

- William Bradford

The best gift from a father to his child is Education and Upbringing.

- Muhammad

Jesus rejected hatred because he saw that hatred meant death to the mind, death to the spirit, and death to communion with his Father. He affirmed life; and hatred was the great denial.

- Howard Thurman

He [God] watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and he protected me, and consoled me as a father would his son.

- Saint Patrick

Lord, I am no longer my own, but Yours. Put me to what You will, rank me with whom You will. Let be employed by You or laid aside for You, exalted for You or brought low by You. Let me have all things, let me have nothing, I freely and heartily yield all things to Your pleasure and disposal. And now, O glorious and blessed God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, You are mine and I am Yours. So be it. Amen.

- John Wesley

Above all, never lose faith in your Father in Heaven, who loves you more than you can comprehend.

- Jeffrey R. Holland