Natalie Cole Quotes

James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.

The thing about living without a father if he's always gone is that it takes a long time to realize he isn't coming home.

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if they've had a competitive relationship with their own father.

Fathers are the first image of who God is!

I never knew my father, which explains the Clint thing. He called himself Daddy... I loved it then, because it filled a great void.

God hears a mother's prayer.

If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.

When I got saved, God became my art agent.

There is not a formula for the way that God heals. There's not a timetable.

God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.

I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!

God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.

We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.

It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.

God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.

My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.