Inspirational Quotes on Fathers

“There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.”

“Both man and woman have their own parts to play in bringing faith to the next generation, and the woman's role is particularly important. How can we ever think that the female sex is inferior when we see the essential responsibility God has given women in this world? Their sensitivity to spiritual concerns seems to be farm more innate and natural than a man's. Mothers and wives often are the medium for our intercourse with the heavenly world, the faithful repositories of spiritual knowledge and wisdom. We should all be careful to avail ourselves of the benefits they have to offer both the present generation and the one that will follow us.”

“A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but incorporates the selves of several people in his own self. Every attempt to live as if he were alone is a denial of the fact that he is actually responsible. He cannot escape the responsibility, which is his because he is a father. This reality refutes the fictitious notion that the isolated individual is the agent of all ethical behavior. It is not the isolated individual but the responsible person who is the proper agent to be considered in ethical reflection.”

“A father's responsibility is not to make the child's decisions, but to let the child watch him make his.”

“My son is my son till he have got him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.”

“God is the archetypal Father; all other fatherhood is a more or less imperfect copy of his perfect fatherhood.|The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology”

“A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.”

“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”

“He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.”

“One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.”

“A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.”

“The goal of priestly ministry is to do good to the souls of men.”

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”

“Any man who declares children to be born perfect never was a father. Your child without evil? You without eyes, you mean!”

“God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct.”

“I say to all fathers--be as good as you can be--because your sons and daughters will follow in your footsteps.”

“Being a godly father requires much perseverance and prayer as we seek God's guidance in being the types of fathers He wants us to be.”