When our hearts are tenderly responsive — and it suits His greater plan, then the Lord will lift the thin veil that separates us. And we will be stunned to realize that He has been closer than our own breath all along.
Father Heart of God
Samuel Logan Brengle
Does the Bible offer hope to the sinner? The man who has wasted his life, scorned the voice of conscience, turned his back on light and goodness and God? It is the only Book in the world that does. It, and it alone, tells of a redeeming God, a Saviour from sin, a loving Heavenly Father who waits to welcome sinners.
Pete Greig
Before Jesus, the Bible has just 40 references to God as Father, but the New Testament has more than 260! And Jesus wasn’t just pointing people to a distant, Freudian father figure in the sky. He dared to call God Abba (Mark 14:36), a word used by any normal kid at the time to express love for their dad. The single key that explains everything Jesus did was this intimate relationship he shared with his Father. In prayer each day he learned to listen to God, and then he lived his whole life simply speaking his Father’s words and doing his works (John 5:19).
John Dawson
Everyone prays, even non- Christians pray. The difference when Christians do it is that they are climbing into the lap of their heavenly Father.
Frederick Buechner
We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us – not because we have deserved his love and not in spite of our undeserving; not because we try and not because we recognize the futility of our trying; but simply because he has chosen to love us. We are children because he is our father; and all of our efforts, fruitful and fruitless, to do good, to speak truth, to understand, are the efforts of children who, for all their precocity, are children still in that before we loved him, he loved us, as children, through Jesus Christ our Lord.