father

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?”

Charles Spurgeon

“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