Spiritual Fatherhood Quotes

We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did.

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

God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with.

I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.

No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.

Noble fatherhood gives us a glimpse of the divine attributes of our Father in Heaven.

Men, to exist, to become complete and mature, need to feel the joy of fatherhood. When a man does not have this desire, something is missing in this man, it is like an incomplete life: a life that stops half way. The grace of fatherhood; of giving life to others, of pastoral paternity, of spiritual paternity is a gift from God.

He is our Father - the Father of our Spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we are, and is now an exalted being.

Fathers are the first image of who God is!