Top 28 Quotes About Sonship
#1. Since our peace lies in loving as God loves, we must strive to love everyone. Our desire to find one "special person," one part of the Sonship who will complete us, is hurtful because it is delusional. It means we're seeking salvation in separation rather than in oneness. The
Marianne Williamson
#2. On the one hand the younger son realizes that he has lost the dignity of his sonship, but at the same time that sense of lost dignity makes him also aware that he is indeed the son who had dignity to lose, (pp. 49).
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#3. Fallen from sonship, beggared of grace,
Grant me. Father, a servant's place.
Christina Rossetti
#4. Mary had said: "Your father and I have been looking for you anxiously." Jesus corrects her: I am with my father. My father is not Joseph, but another - God himself. It is to him that I belong, and here I am with him. Could Jesus' divine sonship be presented any more clearly?
Pope Benedict XVI
#5. He descends upon the chosen as upon the Lord in Jordan, and bears witness to their sonship by working in them a filial spirit by which they cry Abba, Father.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#6. The law of prayer, the right to pray, rests on sonship.
E. M. Bounds
#7. Sonship is a heart that feels at rest and secure in God's love; it believes it belongs, it is free from shame and self-condemnation, it walks in honor toward all people, and it is willing to humble itself before man and God. It is subject to God's mission to experience His love and to give it away.
Jack Frost
#8. It is not imitation that makes sons. It is sonship that make imitators.
Martin Luther
#9. For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.
Jerry Bridges
#10. When we have accepted Jesus Christ, we have become akin to the Father; having become real children of God, we then have the spirit of sonship by which we can come into His presence and make known our wants in a familiar way.
A.C. Dixon
#11. He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#12. The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again.
J.I. Packer
#13. T-1.I.19. Miracles make minds one in God. They depend on cooperation because the Sonship is the sum of all that God created. Miracles therefore reflect the laws of eternity, not of time.
Foundation For Inner Peace
#14. I have to remove your . . . whatever this is.'
'Nightdress,' I say, my cheek against the pillow. 'It's from Paris. You've been alive how long and still can't identify a woman's clothing?
Elizabeth May
#15. It's not the amount of Bible you read, it's the amount of Bible you believe.
Carlos A. Rodriguez
#17. Capoeira is a game, it is dance, it is fight, it is of war and it is of peace, it is of culture, of music, it is a portion of things.
Reinaldo Ramos Suassuna
#18. By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates
#19. It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.
Nicole Kidman
#20. Certain women because of their female power and seductiveness could bring destruction to a family.
Margaret Way
#21. Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow.
Noam Chomsky
#23. Jesus is not a religious leader; He is a Savior. You can enjoy His extravagant love even right after you fall into your extravagant sin.
Carlos A. Rodriguez
#24. Your commitment to Jesus is a beautiful thing, but it will eventually dwindle down, unless you fully understand His commitment to you.
Carlos A. Rodriguez
#26. In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called 'fair play', and on the other hand by aesthetics, that is the cultivation of what is beautiful and graceful.
Pierre De Coubertin
#28. When you judge others you reveal your inability to see them through God's eyes.
Carlos A. Rodriguez
