Top 100 Our Father Quotes
#1. Therefore, let us be patient, patient; and let God our Father teach His own lesson, His own way. Let us try to learn it well and quickly; but do not let us fancy that He will ring the school-bell, and send us to play before our lesson is learnt.
Charles Kingsley
#2. Watching us, our father seemed to age another ten years.
Anonymous
#3. Each life is unique. But for all, repentance will surely include passing through the portal of humble prayer. Our Father in Heaven can allow us to feel fully the conviction of our sins. He knows the depths of our remorse. He can then direct what we must do to qualify for forgiveness.
Henry B. Eyring
#4. Jutta whispers, A girl got kicked out of the swimming hole today. Inge Hachmann. They said they wouldn't let us swim with a half-breed. Unsanitary. A half-breed, Werner. Aren't we half-breeds too? Aren't we half our mother, half our father?
Anthony Doerr
#5. Although there is no solution that is easy, and there is no one formula that will work for everyone with a heartache or a concern, there is One who cares very much about your situation, and He knows what you should do. That is our Father in Heaven.
Margaret D. Nadauld
#6. So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in Our Father's goodness.
Franz Liszt
#7. Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is very impossible to please ... No, God delights even in our heartfelt attempts at obedience.
Kevin DeYoung
#8. Our Father in Heaven planned the coming forth of the Founding Fathersand their form of government as the necessary great prologue leading to the restoration of the gospel ... America, the land of liberty, was to be the Lord's latter-day base of operations for His restored church.
Ezra Taft Benson
#9. We had grown up thinking that a stranger must not even touch us, but that our father, our boyfriend, and our husband could hit us when they liked, out of love, to educate us, to reeducate us.
Elena Ferrante
#10. As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do, as under God's eye, though no other eye ever take note of it.
Hudson Taylor
#11. Our Father in heaven, Reveal who you are. Set the world right; Do what's best - As above, so below. Keep us alive with three square meals. Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others. Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil. You're in charge!
Eugene H. Peterson
#12. True testimonies bring the light of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ into our lives and focus all of us toward the same goal of returning to our Father in Heaven
yet our individual testimonies come through varied experiences and at different stages in our lives.
Donald L. Staheli
#13. There is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.
Marilynne Robinson
#14. -our father used to tell us stories about a bookworm named Wally. Wally, a squiggly little vermicule with a red baseball cap, didn't merely like books. He ate them.
Anne Fadiman
#15. It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction.
Edmund The Martyr
#16. I'm told he takes after our father - a sweet-talker he is not. His mouth sees more feet than a treadmill at a crowded gym.
Robin Kaye
#17. If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know
how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.
Norman Maclean
#18. To be alone with Jesus in adoration and intimate union with Him is the Greatest Gift of Love - the tender love of Our Father in Heaven.
Mother Teresa
#19. Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
Thomas Brooks
#20. Truly, the world is in need of moral leadership ... that teaches the difference between right and wrong and teaches us to forgive one another even as we are forgiven by our Father in heaven.
Billy Graham
#21. Praise to our Father-God,
High praise in solemn lay,
Alike for what His hand hath given,
And what it takes away.
Lydia Sigourney
#22. Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.
Jacques Prevert
#23. Do not be afraid! Our Father is patient, he loves us, he gives us Jesus to guide us on the way which leads to the promised land. Jesus is the light who brightens the darkness. He is our peace.
Pope Francis
#24. Our Father who art in nature ... must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys.
John Steinbeck
#25. God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing
Martin Luther
#26. Dear Lord,' I whisper, 'Our Father in Heaven, I thank Thee. I thank Thee.
Borghild Dahl
#27. God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible.
Pope Benedict XVI
#28. The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#29. The sun is our father, the earth is our mother. And God is a myth destroying our family.
Steve Fowler
#31. I don't know. I don't know why. I don't know what I did to make him hate me as much as this. Why we couldn't go as brothers to mourn - - our father - 'You
C.S. Pacat
#32. The discerning realize that it is not realistic to expect perfection in others when none of us is perfect ... Meaningful progress can be made only when all of us can cast the motes out of our own eyes, leave judgment to our Father in Heaven, and lose ourselves in righteous living.
Marvin J. Ashton
#33. Our Father, here I am, at your disposal, your child, to use me to continue your loving the world, by giving Jesus to me and through me, to each other that we allow Jesus to love in us and through us with the love with which His Father loves him.
Mother Teresa
#34. The entire island knows our father, Fred Hemmings, Jr. - kids, adults, surfers, the governor, grocery clerks, gang members who call our house at night and threaten to kill us as soon as they get out of jail. Fred was a world-champion surfer and is now a well-known, controversial politician.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#35. If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.
Hosea Ballou
#36. Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is there. It is he who listens at the door. It is he who is coming. It is our father who is about to be born. Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Frederick Buechner
#37. When we know God to be our Father, should we not desire that he be known as such by all? And if we do not have this passion, that all creatures do him homage, is it not a sign that his glory means little to us?
John Calvin
#38. They carried what was holy within them, for every man was a temple, and every prayer spoken could be heard by our Father above us.
Alice Hoffman
#39. All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now.
Joseph Mitchell
#40. We best serve our Father in Heaven by righteously influencing others and serving them.
Richard G. Scott
#41. The venerable cypress clings doggedly to its rocky perch, its branches spreading wide and high into the sky. 'See how it stands proudly, even in such inhospitable conditions?' our father used to say. 'This is how we must always be - strong and resilient, no matter what's around us.
Richelle Mead
#42. We are here to assist our Father in His work and His glory, 'to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man' (Moses 1:39). Your obligation is as serious in your sphere of responsibility as is my obligation in my sphere
Gordon B. Hinckley
#43. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our groom; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.
G.K. Chesterton
#45. We shared our father with the world.
Laila Ali
#46. The Lord protects, guides, and watches over those who are His trusted friends in His work. His work and that of His Father and our Father is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of the children of God. And Satan, the enemy of our happiness, opposes those who serve the Lord.
Henry B. Eyring
#47. No one need worry about our getting the best of God in some bargain with him, or that we might somehow succeed in using him for our purposes. Anyone who thinks this is a problem has seriously underestimated the intelligence and agility of our Father in the heavens. He will not be tricked or cheated.
Dallas Willard
#48. You are very precious, each of you, regardless of your circumstances. You occupy a high and sacred place in the eternal plan of God, our Father in Heaven. You are His daughters, precious to Him, loved by Him, and very important to Him. His grand design cannot succeed without you.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#49. Broken Places
"It is by willfully choosing to trust in the strength God offers, to heal our broken places, that we find encouragement and a deeper relationship with our Father.
Cheryl Zelenka
#50. After Chernobyl, thousands and thousands of people, if not millions, were given a death penalty and had to pay the price, our father among them.
Wladimir Klitschko
#51. In the roughest moments, remember: God is our Father; God does not abandon his children.
Pope Francis
#52. We should be about our Father's business by pouring His compassionate love into aching and parched souls that have nowhere to turn, no one to love, and no one to care. Let them see Jesus in us. That is a living testimony.
Billy Graham
#53. G Our Father in heaven, h hallowed be i your name. [1] 10 j Your kingdom come, k your will be done, [2] l on earth as it is in heaven. 11 m Give us n this day our daily bread, [3] 12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And o lead us not into temptation,
Anonymous
#54. I could no more pray the Our Father, I could no longer call myself a Christian, if I refuse to forgive. Humanly speaking, I cannot do it, but God will give us his strength!
Philip Yancey
#55. Freedom to choose your fate is Our Father's greatest gift to man and woman." (p.55)
Dimitry Elias Leger
#56. Our Father knew exactly what He was doing when He created us. He made us enough alike to love each other, but enough different that we would need to unite our strengths and stewardships to create a whole.
Sheri L. Dew
#57. What a marvelous and wonderful thing is # prayer . Think of it. We can actually speak with our Father in # Heaven .
Gordon B. Hinckley
#58. Every member of our Church is a missionary. Without the formality of a setting-apart we should be so set-apart from the ways of the world that we can teach the gospel, which is our Father's way of life, by the very lives we live.
William J. Critchlow Jr.
#59. It has a supernatural grandeur which expands the soul and unites it with God. I say an Our Father or a Hail Mary when I feel so spiritually barren that I cannot summon up a single worth while thought. These two prayers fill me with rapture and feed and satisfy my soul.
Therese Of Lisieux
#60. The Our Father is to prayer what Christ is to humanity.
Simone Weil
#61. Essential to receiving divine forgiveness are personal, individual recognition and acceptance of our Father's mercy, made available to us by the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ and a renewed covenant to obey the principles of the gospel.
Ronald E. Poelman
#62. God loves us. He is good, He is our Father, and He expects us to pray, and to trust and be believing, and not give up, and not panic, and not retreat, when something doesn't seem to be going just right.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#63. When all other hope is gone, our Father in Heaven provides the Lamb of God, and we are saved by his sacrifice.
Dallin H. Oaks
#64. Don't let your imagination run off with theirs. There is no proof that he did anything to our father. When farmers fear for their livestock, they take down every wolf indiscriminately - don't let the pack do that. Maybe someone like Sam did this, but not Sam.
Lish McBride
#65. Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.
Ezra Taft Benson
#66. Our parents met at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona at a high school summer science camp. "I'd come to see the heavens," our father always said. "But the stars were in her eyes," a line that used to please and embarrass me in equal measure. Young geeks in love.
Karen Joy Fowler
#67. When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him.
Brigham Young
#68. We were never created to settle for mere religion. Jesus did not die so that we could have a religious belief system - but rather a life-giving relationship with our Father.
Christine Caine
#69. Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.
Judith Viorst
#70. When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of teaching them how to regain His presence. Our Father promised a Savior to redeem them from their fallen condition.
Ezra Taft Benson
#71. Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
Susan B. Anthony
#72. Our father in heaven governs the affairs of men by placing specific individuals upon the earth to lead at specific times and inspiring and directing them.
Harold B. Lee
#73. Our father would return to see his fairest flower gone and only the weed left for him to use as he saw fit
E.K. Johnston
#74. And in thy own sermon, thou
That the sparrow falls dost allow,
It shall not cause me any alarm;
For neither so comes the bird to harm,
Seeing our Father, thou hast said,
Is by the sparrow's dying bed;
Therefore it is a blessed place,
And the sparrow in high grace.
George MacDonald
#75. I can conceive of no reason for all this administration of the higher to the lower, unless it be for the purpose of advancing our Father's children along the lines of eternal progression.
B. H. Roberts
#76. We want. Life leaks. Desires are disappointed. And God, our Father, remains eternally good.
Jen Pollock Michel
#77. Some build their sense of personal worth by comparing themselves to others. That approach can lead to feelings of inadequacy or superiority. It is preferable to look directly to our Father for our sense of self-worth.
Quentin L. Cook
#78. There is no greater Church calling than that of a home teacher. There is no greater Church service rendered to our Father in Heaven's children than the service rendered by a humble, dedicated, committed home teacher.
Ezra Taft Benson
#79. Our Father's commitment to us, His children, is unwavering. Indeed He softens the winters of our lives, but He also brightens our summers.
Thomas S. Monson
#80. We are His children, each knit together as we should be. We must go by the name our Father has given us. Beloved.
Lisa Wingate
#81. We often pray to Jesus; we pray to the Father, especially in the 'Our Father'; but not often to the Holy Spirit ... Pray often to the Holy Spirit so that He may help us, give us the strength, give us the inspiration and lead us forward.
Pope Francis
#82. I have found that because of our Father's desire for us to grow, He may give us gentle, almost imperceptible promptings that, if we are willing to accept without complaint, He will enlarge to become a very clear indication of His will.
Richard G. Scott
#83. There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closures, the ghostly fingering, practice and practice and then, incredibly, sound and melody and warmth.
Alice Sebold
#84. Do you know what Hell is? ... No fire, no brimstone. Man in his infinite folly invented that to rob from his brothers their will. Hell is existing without Our Father. None of His love touches me.
Thomm Quackenbush
#85. God is everywhere! the God who framed
Mankind to be one, mighty family,
Himself our Father, and the world our home.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#86. God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.
George MacDonald
#87. Our father knew more than any living person about the secret of time, except how to live in it. His time did not travel; it was a block of persisting nows.
Richard Powers
#88. The line of communication between God and man is always open unless broken by man himself. We are, as it were, always in the presence of our Father in Heaven. Through His Holy Spirit, God is with us always and everywhere.
John Andreas Widtsoe
#89. Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.
Sheri L. Dew
#90. God our Father and His Son Jesus Christ, with Their perfect foreknowledge, already recommended every one of you to fill your mortal probation during the most decisive period in the history of the world.
Sheri L. Dew
#91. We are born with our father's names. We are not responsible for their failures. We are responsible for what they made us believe in. That is our only obligation. And it is even then a choice which we may sometimes be wise to ignore.
Warren Eyster
#92. Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
Teresa Of Avila
#93. Our Father in Heaven needs you to be who you are ... You are very important.
Sharon G. Larsen
#94. Westerns were all daddy liked to watch. Give me some Clint Eastwood, some Charles Bronson, and I was a happy girl. It was our father-daughter bonding.
Melissa Marr
#95. Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.
C.S. Lewis
#96. The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life.
Dallas Willard
#97. God is our Father and our God, but only in Christ Jesus.
Martin Luther
#98. Our Father who art on Delridge Avenue, give us this day our daily bread. Only make it pumpernickel and slap on some French's mustard and cucumber chips.
Conrad Wesselhoeft
#99. As a child crawls up into his daddy's lap, we too can climb into our Father's arms and tell Him all that is in our hearts.
Bill Bright
#100. A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile curiosity, we insist on tasting the cockroach on the floor while our father is preparing a magnificent feast for us.
Criss Jami
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