A Father Who Keeps His Promises Quotes

“Salvation history reveals sin as literally a broken home.”
― Scott Hahn, A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God's Covenant Love in Scripture

“The problem of corrupt clergy haunts God’s family in every age. Priests who misuse and abuse their authority inflict untold damage upon the people of God.”
― Scott Hahn, A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God's Covenant Love in Scripture

“I’ll tell you how. Two thousand years later, this same God called his only beloved Son to go to that very same place to die on a cross for our sake. Calvary is one of the hills of Moriah. And the Son of God climbed that hill, just like Isaac; for the Lord did “provide himself” the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.”
― Scott Hahn, A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God's Covenant Love in Scripture

“Properly understood, the marital sacrament is an encumbrance that paradoxically yields freedom. The wife is free to grow old and wrinkled without fear of divorce, while the husband is likewise free to become bald and potbellied without fear of his wife’s abandonment. Covenants”
― Scott Hahn, A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God's Covenant Love in Scripture

“As the Messiah, Jesus Christ is priest, prophet and king. He is the new Adam. He is the seed of Abraham. He is the new Moses. He is the Son of David. He is the Son of God. He is the Lamb of God. Jesus had to be all these things and more in order to fulfill all of the promises made by his Father. And he did.”
― Scott Hahn, A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God's Covenant Love in Scripture

“When God saw that Abraham had not withheld his only son, he swore to bless all nations through Abraham’s seed (see Gn 22:15-22). Since the blessing of a father is reserved for his family, this oath is nothing less than God’s pledge to restore the human race as his own worldwide family. That is why the establishment of the Catholic Church must be attributed to God’s faithfulness and power. It represents nothing less than the historic fulfillment of God’s sworn covenant to Abraham.”
― Scott Hahn, A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God's Covenant Love in Scripture