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  • The Our Father is to prayer what Christ is to humanity. -- Simone Weil
  • Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls. -- William Pennington
  • Our Father in Heaven needs you to be who you are. ... You are very important. -- Sharon G. Larsen
  • The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind. -- Tryon Edwards
  • Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home. -- C. S. Lewis
  • It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction. -- Edmund the Martyr
  • Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty. -- Jacques Prevert
  • Our Father's commitment to us, His children, is unwavering. Indeed He softens the winters of our lives, but He also brightens our summers. -- Thomas S. Monson
  • Our Father expects you to learn how to obtain that divine help by exercising faith in Him and His Holy Son, Jesus Christ. -- Richard G. Scott
  • He guides us into pastures green, He leads to bowers of bliss, Our Father lives, the God unseen, and Christ our Shepherd is. -- Cecil Frances Alexander
  • Jesus said when you pray say "Our Father which art in heaven." He did not say "Our Judge which art in heaven". #grace #gospel -- John Paul Warren
  • Our Father Who Art in Heaven gathered more meaning for me as my own father joined the Maker when I was still in school. -- Andy Paula
  • The Our Father contains all the duties we owe to God, the acts of all the virtues and the petitions for all our spiritual and corporal needs. -- Louis de Montfort
  • To be alone with Jesus in adoration and intimate union with Him is the Greatest Gift of Love - the tender love of Our Father in Heaven. -- Mother Teresa
  • Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention. -- Teresa of Avila
  • My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill.' -- Stark Sands
  • So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in Our Father's goodness. -- Franz Liszt
  • Our Father in Heaven does not wish us to cower. He does not want us to wallow in our misery. He expects us to square our shoulders, roll up our sleeves, and overcome our challenges. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Do not be afraid! Our Father is patient, he loves us, he gives us Jesus to guide us on the way which leads to the promised land. Jesus is the light who brightens the darkness. He is our peace. -- Pope Francis
  • When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of teaching them how to regain His presence. Our Father promised a Savior to redeem them from their fallen condition. -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • Our Father in heaven, Reveal who you are. Set the world right; Do what's best - As above, so below. Keep us alive with three square meals. Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others. Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil. You're in charge! -- Eugene H. Peterson
  • Our Father in Heaven planned the coming forth of the Founding Fathersand their form of government as the necessary great prologue leading to the restoration of the gospel... America, the land of liberty, was to be the Lord's latter-day base of operations for His restored church. -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • We often pray to Jesus; we pray to the Father, especially in the 'Our Father'; but not often to the Holy Spirit....Pray often to the Holy Spirit so that He may help us, give us the strength, give us the inspiration and lead us forward. -- Pope Francis
  • It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest pet name for this ferocious Commander-in-Chief? I will save you the trouble but you must not laugh. It is Our Father in Heaven. -- Mark Twain
  • I grew up Catholic. We went to confession on Saturday, stood in the shortest line, since it led to the priest who gave the easiest penance - usually a few Our Fathers and Hail Marys. We confessed in private, prayed our penance and our souls were clean. -- Regina Brett
  • I said the rosary, and I said the Our Father, as they call it in the Catholic Church. One of the things I learned in the conversion process was to say the rosary, and I had a set of rosary beads. So I said 'Hail Mary, full of grace.' -- Wesley Clark
  • We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us. -- Wynton Marsalis
  • My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father. -- Jeff Bridges
  • Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well. -- Donny Osmond
  • All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father. -- Black Kettle
  • Since the beginning, a woman's first and most important role has been ushering into mortality spirit sons and daughters of our Father in Heaven. -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • After Chernobyl, thousands and thousands of people, if not millions, were given a death penalty and had to pay the price, our father among them. -- Wladimir Klitschko
  • Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids. -- Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
  • Free agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan's plan of force. With this sublime gift, we can grow, improve, progress, and seek perfection. -- James E. Faust
  • God truly is our Father, the Father of the spirits of all mankind. We are his literal offspring and are formed in his image. We have inherited divine characteristics from him. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world - a universe - a balanced universe in order to have peace and development. -- Hugo Chavez
  • Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is very impossible to please... No, God delights even in our heartfelt attempts at obedience. -- Kevin DeYoung
  • When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out. -- Quincy Jones
  • Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us. -- Sheri L. Dew
  • After clearing the land, planting the orchard, building the house and barn, and surviving the Great Depression, our father died suddenly one winter night when we were small, leaving us to learn about loss before we even knew its name. -- Virginia Euwer Wolff
  • A defining reality for me is what Scripture teaches in Hebrews 12, that God is our father, and that a sign that he loves us is that he disciplines us, he takes us through hardship to build character in us that could not be shaped apart from difficulty. -- Joshua Harris
  • Although there is no solution that is easy, and there is no one formula that will work for everyone with a heartache or a concern, there is One who cares very much about your situation, and He knows what you should do. That is our Father in Heaven. -- Margaret D. Nadauld
  • God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know us best and love us most and will not leave one thing undone for our eternal welfare. Should we not love them for it and honor them first? -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering. -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • Each life is unique. But for all, repentance will surely include passing through the portal of humble prayer. Our Father in Heaven can allow us to feel fully the conviction of our sins. He knows the depths of our remorse. He can then direct what we must do to qualify for forgiveness. -- Henry B. Eyring
  • I still have a stammer that I can control by not opening a sentence with a hard consonant, or by concentrating for a moment, breathing softly down. Growing up, the 'Our Father' was lovely, made for me, the 'Hail Mary' was gorgeous, and 'Glory Be to the Father' was an absolute nightmare. -- Colm Toibin
  • The Lord protects, guides, and watches over those who are His trusted friends in His work. His work and that of His Father and our Father is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of the children of God. And Satan, the enemy of our happiness, opposes those who serve the Lord. -- Henry B. Eyring
  • Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with God; but, believing in Jesus, we become, through this very faith, the children of God; have God as our Father, and may come to Him for all the temporal and spiritual blessings which we need. -- George Muller
  • Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of what we'll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally - and permanently - be 'at home' in a way that defies description. -- Charles Stanley
  • Our Lord is our Father. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Moses is our true founding father. -- Bruce Feiler
  • My father was never anti-anything in our house. -- Errol Flynn
  • Become what our Heavenly Father desires you to become. -- Dallin H. Oaks
  • If Nature is our mother, then God is our father. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind. -- Giordano Bruno
  • My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people. -- Chief Joseph
  • Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house. -- Thomas Brooks
  • We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go. -- Guillaume Apollinaire
  • You can't compare me to my father. Our similarities are different. -- Dale Berra
  • God is our father, but even more is God our mother. -- Pope John Paul I
  • We are never alone when we stand with our Father in Heaven. -- Thomas S. Monson
  • . . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving. -- Marilynne Robinson
  • If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied. -- Rudyard Kipling
  • There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father. -- Denis Diderot
  • Nothing compares with the satisfaction of pleasing the heart of our heavenly Father. -- Bill Johnson
  • I love all our Father's children of every color, creed, and political persuasion. -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible. -- Pope Benedict XVI
  • Prayer endows us with the power to draw near to our Eternal Father. -- L. Tom Perry
  • As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother. -- Julian of Norwich
  • Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain? -- Elisabeth Elliot
  • The wonder in our life should always point the greater wonder of the Father. -- Harry Neal
  • My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house. -- Tori Amos
  • We best serve our Father in Heaven by righteously influencing others and serving them. -- Richard G. Scott
  • Father, help us to rest our heads on the soft pillow of Your providence. -- Alistair Begg
  • If my father was the head of our house, my mother was its heart. -- Irving Pichel
  • They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak. -- George W. Bush
  • Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things. -- Richard Cecil
  • Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted. -- Sam Sheppard
  • He set the example for all of us to humble ourselves before our Heavenly Father. -- Robert D. Hales
  • Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father. -- Richard J. Foster
  • Noble fatherhood gives us a glimpse of the divine attributes of our Father in Heaven. -- James E. Faust
  • In the roughest moments, remember: God is our Father; God does not abandon his children. -- Pope Francis
  • Prayer in secret is life finding expression in the realized Presence of God our Father. -- Samuel Chadwick
  • A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy. -- J. C. Ryle
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  • Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to succeed gloriously. -- Richard G. Scott
  • It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father. -- C. S. Lewis
  • Sometimes we forget that our Heavenly Father desires that each of us have this joy. -- Robert D. Hales
  • My father lost his business. Our house was locked up, and we had to leave. -- Kumar Pallana
  • Our earliest efforts will be heard with joy by our Heavenly Father, however they are phrased. -- Dallin H. Oaks
  • Father, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth. -- Alistair Begg
  • Everything in our family was always boxing. It was the life my father chose for me. -- Nonito Donaire
  • The only thing my father and I have in common is that our similarities are different. -- Dale Berra
  • Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing. -- Ellen G. White
  • Our Heavenly Father does bless us when we show our love for Him in all things. -- Margaret D. Nadauld
  • Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father. -- Brennan Manning
  • We had our family tree done... turns out I'm a quarter gay on my father's side. -- Brian Posehn
  • Each of us has been sent to earth by our Heavenly Father to merit eternal life -- Robert D. Hales
  • We don't have to be perfect to experience the blessings and gifts of our Heavenly Father. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
  • Our heavenly Father never takes anything from his children unless he means to give them something better. -- George Muller
  • My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city. -- Richard Ernst
  • The unfolding of our friendship with the Father will be a never-ending revelation strretching on into eternity -- Catherine Marshall
  • The eternal everlasting God has become our Father and the moment we realize that, it transforms everything. -- David Lloyd-Jones
  • ... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried. -- Eunice Kennedy Shriver
  • All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father. -- Oswald Chambers
  • My father is sort of the jokester. My dad is still the funniest guy in our family. -- Seth Meyers
  • The sun is our father, the earth is our mother. And God is a myth destroying our family. -- Steve Fowler
  • Remember that our Heavenly Father and our Savior, Jesus Christ, know you best and love you the most. -- M. Russell Ballard
  • People who say we are just preaching extreme grace must not understand how extremely gracious our Father is. -- D.R. Silva
  • We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Our willingness to be used as God's vessels can make His Father-heart a reality to our hurting world. -- Floyd McClung
  • Our very genesis was not really a beginning after all, but indeed the product of a personality-Father Mills. -- Percy Jewett Burrell
  • Our Sabbath practices reveal which Trinity we truly worship: Father, Son, and Spirit... or me, myself, and I. -- Mark Hart
  • It was by faith, nothing wavering, that Joseph saw God our Eternal Father and Jesus Christ, His Son. -- Thomas S. Monson
  • We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father? -- Susan B. Anthony
  • God is the mother and father of the world. Our parents are the mother and father of this body. -- Sathya Sai Baba
  • The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer. -- William Caxton
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