“Your God is not our God! Your God loves your people and hates mine! He folds his strong protecting arms lovingly about the paleface and leads him by the hand as a father leads an infant son.” PeopleGodHandsHateFatherStrongLove YouMinesSonArmsGod LoveInfantFoldsGod Loves You Author:Chief Seattle
“When you ... see our Father, you will see a being with whom you have long been acquainted, and He will receive you into His arms, and you will be ready to fall into His embrace and kiss Him. ... You will be so glad and joyful. ... When you are qualified and purified, ... you can endure the glory of eternity.” LongFallFatherReadyArmsKissingGloryEternityEmbraceEndureGladGod LoveJoyfulHistoricQualifiedOur Father Author:Brigham Young
“I do not believe in a God who would set up rules and commandments only to wait for us to fail so He could punish us. I believe in a Heavenly Father who is loving and caring and who rejoices in our every effort to stand tall and walk toward Him. Even when we stumble, He urges us not to be discouraged-never to give up or flee our allotted field of service-but to take courage, find our faith, and keep trying.” LoveGivingTryingBelieveGodCareChristianFaithFatherBeliefI BelieveWaitingReligiousWalksEffortChristianityCourageFailingFieldsFailureGiving UpI Believe InCaringPunishmentGod LoveHeavenlyUrgesTallRejoiceCommandmentsNot Giving UpNever Giving UpDiscouragedKeep TryingHeavenly FatherStumblingFleeing Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor even the information contained in our prayers ("your Father knows what you need before you ask him"). But by inviting us into the partnership of creation, God also invites us into relationship. God is love, said the apostle John. God does not merely have love or feel love. God is love and cannot not love. As such, God yearns for relationship with the creatures made in his image.” KnowsNeedsFeelsDoeMadeSaidAsksFatherPrayerInformationCreationPrayingCreaturesLikesGod LoveInvitesPartnershipOur PrayersApostlesInvitingGod Is Love Author:Philip Yancey
“Someone tells us that God loves us as a father loves his children. We are reassured. But then something awful happens. Some qualification is made.... We are reassured again. But then perhaps we ask: what is this assurance of God's (appropriately qualified) love worth, what is this apparent guarantee really a guarantee against? Just what would have to happen not merely (morally and wrongly) to tempt but also (logically and rightly) to entitle us to say "God does not love us" or even "God does not exist"?” ChildrenDoeMadeHappensAsksFatherAtheismPositive AtheismAwfulGod LoveGuaranteesAssuranceQualifiedQualificationsGod Loves Us Author:Antony Flew
“As a newborn baby breathes and cries, so the signs of life in a newborn Christian are faith and repentance, inhaling the love of God and exhaling an initial cry of distress. And at that point what God provides, exactly as for a newborn infant, is the comfort, protection, and nurturing promise of a mother. "If God is our father, the church is our mother." The words are those of the Swiss Reformer John Calvin ... it is as impossible, unnecessary, and undesirable to be a Christian all by yourself as it is to be a newborn baby all by yourself.” IfsChristianMotherFatherChurchImpossibleCryBabyComfortPromiseProtectionBreatheGod LoveRepentanceUnnecessaryDistressInfantInitialsOur FatherNurturingNewbornReformersSwissUndesirableNewborn BabySigns Of LifeGod ProvidesExhaling Author:N. T. Wright
“Today is [the feast of] Santa Rita, Patron Saint of impossible things - but this seems impossible: let us ask of her this grace, this grace that all, all, all people would do good and that we would encounter one another in this work, which is a work of creation, like the creation of the Father. A work of the family, because we are all children of God, all of us, all of us! And God loves us, all of us! May Santa Rita grant us this grace, which seems almost impossible. Amen.” PeopleMayChildrenSeemsTodayAsksFatherGraceImpossibleCreationSaintGod LoveEncountersGrantsSantaChild Of GodAmenPatronImpossible ThingsGod Loves Us Author:Pope Francis
“Holiness is religious principle put into motion. It is the love of God sent forth into circulation, on the feet, and with the hands of love to men. It is faith gone to work. It is charity coined into actions, and devotion breathing benedictions on human suffering, while it goes up in intercession to the Father of all piety.” MenHumansHandsActionSufferingFatherReligiousPrinciplesGoneFeetCharityDevotionBreathingGod LoveHolinessWorking ItPietyCirculationIntercessionHuman SufferingBenediction Book:Sermons for the People Source: Sermons for the People
“This feeling of accountability, which is encompassed by the first great commandment to love God, has been described by some as 'obedience to the unenforceable.' [John Fletcher Moulton.] We try to do what is right because we love and want to please our Father in Heaven, not because someone is forcing us to obey.” WantTryingFirstsHas BeensFeelingsFatherHeavenPleaseObedienceGod LoveAccountabilityCommandmentsOur FatherFather In Heaven Author:Quentin L. Cook
“I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends.” ChildrenMotherThreeFatherJesusChristStudentsBrotherJesus ChristGod LovePetTrue FriendBrother SisterI Love God Author:Ana Monnar