Father Quotes

Father, in those moments of utter exasperation, help me to want You as much as I need You!

~ Evinda Lepins

When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never.

~ Shannon Celebi

God is the only book that can never be touched, open and seen.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The wrath of God is never an evil wrath. God gets angry because he loves people like a mother would love her child if someone were to harm it. There is something wrong if the mother never gets angry, it is safe to say that that is the unloving mother.

~ Criss Jami

I Am The Way, The Truth and The Life; no one comes to The Father but by Me

~ Jesus Christ

If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will. Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath

~ P.a. Speers

Like Mum and that bastard.” “You mean Da?”“Call him what you like.

~ G.a. Aiken

Though he wouldn’t take it or offer it back, she gave. She squeezed it into him and held it there. She accepted him. She loved him in his wretchedness, kissed his ragged cheek, and called him /father./

~ A.s. Peterson

I stand and feel an overpowering urge to forgive, because I realize that my father can't help himself, that he never could help himself, any more than he could understand himself.

~ Andre Agassi

Intentionally or involuntarily, your earthly and spiritual fathers will lead you the perfect Father. You might not recognize it, but even when they fail, they create the perfect scenario for you to run into your Heavenly Daddy’s arms. When they reject you, He will receive you. When they fail at meeting you, He will open up His schedule. When they miscommunicate with you, He will share His heart of love for you and, His heart of love for them.

~ Carlos A. Rodriguez

We would be in each other's lives again. No, he hadn't been the best father, but he was my father, and we loved each other. We needed each other. Though he'd disappointed me countless times through the years, life had already proven too short for me to hold on to that. So I let go of my hurt. I let go years of frustration between us. Most of all, I let go of any desire to change my father and I accepted him for who he was. I took all of my anguish and released it like a fistful of helium balloons to the sky, and I chose to forgive him.

~ Liz Murray

The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day.

~ Frank Beddor

One night when we were lying under the stars together she pointed to this beaming bright star beside the moon and said wherever she was in the world, whether we were together or apart, that I should remember her with that star because it would always be there-that it was her with me.

~ Rebecah Mcmanus

Can you become a man without becoming your father?

~ Hisham Matar

She has no memories of her mother but imagines her as white, a soundless brilliance. Her father radiates a thousand colors, opal, strawberry red, deep russet, wild green; a smell like oil and metal, the feel of a lock tumbler sliding home, the sound of his key rings chiming as he walks.

~ Anthony Doerr

My mouth fell open in incredulity.“Ah, Maria. Are you trying to tell me you’ve taken up the sport of fly-catching with your mouth?”Ros reached over and lifted my chin.“And an assistant too. So that you don’t scare the little flies away. How wonderful; I didn’t realise it was a team sport. Interesting. Tell me, what do they taste like? I can’t imagine a fly filling any hole in your stomach. How many have you caught?”“That’s disgusting.” Ros screwed her face up.“My thoughts exactly.

~ Kelly Batten

My dad once said... Some friends are like rubber wrappers; they bind with you safely but get weaker when you stretch them too much. Treat your friends with care, else the elasticity of their love for you may not go lasting!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island!

~ Jim George

The amount of time we give to something indicates it's importance to us.

~ Jim George

Behind every successful man is a woman but few of us realize that behind most successful women is a man too, her father.

~ Shahla Khan

I know that when I read the Bible, my life is transformed. I think differently. I act differently. I talk differently.

~ Jim George

Behind every great man is a man greater, his father.

~ Habeeb Akande

Keep moving forward! You don't need permission from anyone in order to move on your own father's land! Go ahead and take the lead!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The table that cannot stand upright, is an insult to the carpenter who makes it. God made us perfectly; so when we refuse to carry out the functions we were created for, our father loses the glory He deserves!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your help comes from the Lord God who made heaven, earth and you! Grab your mission; that's your father's assignment for you! No one can stop you from attaining success with the assignment your father gave you to do!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The question is not can you wear your father's shoes?. The question is can you walk in your father's shoes?. It is one thing having a mentor and it is another thing to become like your mentor.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A single lie is the father of all lies

~ Sheeja Jose

Just as I had done, my father sleeps off and on for days. Sometimes I sit by the bed in Marta's house and stare at him until I feel like it isn't a dream anymore. Sometimes Jimmi joins me and sometimes, when I'm alone I weep and I am not sure why. Maybe it's because of everything I had been through to get to this point or maybe it was for everything I had lost. Part of me thinks that I should be glad for all of the things I had gained.But the hero doesn't get the reward. The hero pays the price. As it is in every story.

~ Celia Mcmahon

The memory slowly faded away. I could feel tears strolling down my snout from my eyes. I missed my father... He did what he could to save me that day.

~ Grace Fiorre

To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.

~ Marita Golden

As a young child I had Santa and Jesus all mixed up. I could identify Coke or Pepsi with just one sip, but I could not tell you for sure why they strapped Santa to a cross. Had he missed a house? Had a good little girl somewhere in the world not received the doll he’d promised her, making the father angry?” (p.3)

~ Augusten Burroughs

Jesus is more interested in your heart than your ministry.

~ Carlos A. Rodriguez

Torrance uses the analogy of an embrace. When we hug someone, there is a double movement. We open our arms and in so doing give ourselves to the beloved. But in the embrace we also draw that person close to us...One hand, Christ, opens the relationship, the other hand, the Holy Spirit draws us into that relationship with the Father.

~ Leonard J. Vander Zee

Prayer is the answer to earthly troubles.

~ Grace Dola Balogun

It rains on everyone. It may be storming but there is a covering.Life may be challenging, but there is a covering.It may seem impossible, hopeless, doubtful, fear-ridden, and pain-laden, but there is a covering. There are other umbrellas, but only one is red with the blood of Jesus. We need to love Jesus more than the noise.

~ Eric Samuel Timm

We need to get to the heart of each heart issue—and we can’t do it. Only the Maker can. The world needs #Jesus.

~ Eric Samuel Timm

The church is not a brick-and-mortar structure. The church is made of flesh & blood. Followers of #Christ are the church.

~ Eric Samuel Timm

The boy could see in his father's gaze a desire to be able, himself, to travel the world—a desire that was still alive, despite his father's having had to bury it, over dozens of years, under the burden of struggling for water to drink, food to eat, and the same place to sleep every night of his life.

~ Paulo Coelho

I have the solution to all my problems. I have money, position, the running of one of the country’s legendary cattle stations. I can even get the girl I want. I can’t buy her, of course. She’s got money of her own. But I’m pretty sure if I talk to her dad, he’ll give me the green light.

~ Margaret Way