Our preservation is a Trinitarian work.
God the Father keeps and preserves us.
God the Son intercedes for us.
God the Holy Spirit indwells and assists us.
R.C. Sproul
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
—Mark Twain
War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.
—Heraclitus
“It was the joy of Christ that he should finish the work which his Father gave him to do; and he has finished it, and therefore he is glad; will not you also rejoice in his finished work?”
“The Father himself loveth you, declares Christ; so, surely, you share Christ’s joy, and that fact should make your own joy full.”
– Charles Spurgeon
In girls, there is no greater desire than that protected by the father.
—Sigmund Freud
This it is to ask the Father in Christ’s name, – God as a father, the fountain; and Christ as the procurer of them.
—John Owen
Through Christ, come to God the Father, from whom you have departed by sin.
—Jonathan Edwards
Don’t marry a woman who doesn’t love her father.
—Peter R. Rose
Those persons who have God for their Father have a Father who loves them much more than any earthly parent loves his child.
—Jonathan Edwards
That such a person who was divine and so dear to the Father should suffer at all would have been a wonderful testimony of God’s hatred of sin. But specially it was so when Christ suffered so much.
—Jonathan Edwards
Since I came to understand the gospel of Jesus Christ, the great mystery of godliness in His Son, and the dealings of the Father with the Son, the Lord knows now that I abhor sin in secret more than I abhor hell itself.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Since I came to understand the gospel of Jesus Christ, the great mystery of godliness in His Son, and the dealings of the Father with the Son, the Lord knows now that I abhor sin in secret more than I abhor hell itself.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Never marry a woman whose father called her princess.
—Peter R. Rose