The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Fathers | Mothers | Parents
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
– F.F. Bruce
God | Fathers
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.
– Jonathan Falwell
Fathers
A father’s responsibility is not to make the child’s decisions, but to let the child watch him make his.
– Ed Cole
Fathers
Any man who declares children to be born perfect never was a father. Your child without evil? You without eyes, you mean!
– Charles Spurgeon
Fathers | Children
I say to all fathers–be as good as you can be–because your sons and daughters will follow in your footsteps.
– Duane Chapman
Fathers | Daughters
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.
– Assorted Authors
Fathers
My son is my son till he have got him a wife, But my daughter’s my daughter all the days of her life.
– Thomas Fuller
Fathers
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.
– William Penn
Fathers
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
– George Herbert
Fathers | Education
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.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
Fathers | America
God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct.
– James H. Aughey
God | Fathers