“A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father.”

“God raises from the dead he who man slays, he whom his brothers have rejected, finds his father once more. Pray, believe, enter into life the father is there.”

“If you're male, and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And sometimes you find your father in your career.”

“Then came the reflection, how little at any time could a father do for the wellbeing of his children! The fact of their being children implied their need of an all-powerful father: must there not then be such a father? Therewith the truth dawned upon him, that first of truths, which all his church-going and Bible-reading had hitherto failed to disclose, that, for life to be a good thing and worth living, a man must be the child of a perfect father, and know him. In his terrible perturbation about his children, he lifted up his heart—not to the Governor of the world; not to the God of Abraham or Moses; not in the least to the God of the Kirk; least of all to the God of the Shorter Catechism; but to the faithful creator and Father of David Barclay. The aching soul which none but a perfect father could have created capable of deploring its own fatherly imperfection, cried out to the father of fathers on behalf of his children, and as he cried, a peace came stealing over him such as he had never before felt.”

“He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.”

“For to us a child is born,for to us a son is given,and the government shall be on his shoulders.And he will be calledWonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.- Isaiah 9:6”