Husbands and Fathers Quotes

“In a certain sense God has committed to every father the responsibility to embody, as a person, the ultimate revelation of the Bible, fatherhood. To be a real father is the most perfect depiction of God that any man can achieve, because it is the ultimate revelation of God Himself. In fact, every father represents God to his family. That is not an option! The question is, Do you as a father represent God rightly or wrongly?”
― Derek Prince, Husbands and Fathers: Rediscover the Creator's Purpose for Men – Great for First Time Dads, Father's Day Gifts, and Dad to Be Gifts

“When you have met God’s conditions, He casts your sins behind His back into the ocean of His forgetfulness. It was Corrie ten Boom who added, “And when God casts our sins into the ocean, He puts up a sign: No fishing!” If almighty God has forgotten your sins, why should you try to remember them?”
― Derek Prince, Husbands and Fathers: Rediscover the Creator's Purpose for Men – Great for First Time Dads, Father's Day Gifts, and Dad to Be Gifts

“If you want to raise your children successfully, you must combine love with discipline. The way to produce unhappy, frustrated children, on the other hand, is to spoil them—to give them all they ask for, to do everything they want, to succumb to every demand. Children raised in this way will, when they grow up, expect life to treat them the same way their parents did. But life does not play the game that way! Life is pretty tough—and getting tougher. I have observed the lives of people whose parents treated them with unscriptural indulgence and I would say that, in varying degrees, they have all had difficult lives. To spoil your children is not kindness. Often, in fact, it is the expression of laziness. It takes much less effort to spoil your children than to discipline”
― Derek Prince, Husbands and Fathers: Rediscover the Creator's Purpose for Men – Great for First Time Dads, Father's Day Gifts, and Dad to Be Gifts

“The people of that time had what they called “mystery religions.” These religions offered special secrets only to those who passed through a closely guarded process of initiation. Unless you had been initiated, you could not learn their secrets. When Paul describes marriage as a “mystery,” therefore, he implies that we can understand its true nature only if we have passed through the appropriate process of initiation. This process takes place when, by the marriage ceremony, a man and woman enter into covenant with God and with each other. Only when they are willing to make this covenant commitment can they begin to discover the true nature of marriage. Couples not willing to fulfill this condition can experience the legal and physical aspects of marriage, but its true nature remains closed to them. It is still a mystery—a secret.”
― Derek Prince, Husbands and Fathers: Rediscover the Creator's Purpose for Men – Great for First Time Dads, Father's Day Gifts, and Dad to Be Gifts

“The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant. Psalm 25:14, emphasis added”
― Derek Prince, Husbands and Fathers: Rediscover the Creator's Purpose for Men – Great for First Time Dads, Father's Day Gifts, and Dad to Be Gifts