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Example sentences for "fatherhood"

  • Faith in the Divine Fatherhood becomes trust in the human brotherhood.

  • So the Apostle brings to a close this part of his argument, and links it to what he has said before touching the fatherhood of Abraham.

  • Motherhood is beautiful, fatherhood is beautiful; but the dawn of fatherhood and motherhood is not beautiful.

  • Why should we assume that the Fatherhood of God is for the adult alone?

  • He speaks more of fatherhood and sonship than of any other relations.

  • Competent and efficient fatherhood does not come by accident.

  • How worse than empty are all our pratings about divine fatherhood if we illustrate its meaning only degradingly or misleadingly!

  • God in terms of fatherhood is the sum and source of all that is ideal in personality.

  • With the truth proclaimed by Christ of the "Fatherhood of God" came also the great truth of the "Brotherhood of Man.

  • Jesus Christ recognized this desire of man to know his standing with God and He proclaimed not only the power, but the Fatherhood of God.

  • The notion of the fatherhood of Jesus Christ (Isa.

  • Nor is there anything surprising in this; for the common Fatherhood of God and the common love of Christ naturally afford the strongest argument for the common rights of man.

  • So the brotherhood of man, as it is called, naturally follows from the Fatherhood of God.

  • Her imagination had darted backward in conjectures, and forward in previsions, of what this revealed fatherhood implied; and there were words in Godfrey's last speech which helped to make the previsions especially definite.

  • It had been agreed between him and his wife that the subject of his fatherhood should be approached very carefully, and that, if possible, the disclosure should be reserved for the future, so that it might be made to Eppie gradually.

  • Such love is God's; and preachers who advertise his Fatherhood as a gentle nurse that shelters us from suffering have sapped the Gospel of its moral power.

  • Such faiths as the Fatherhood of God have come to men, they think, in happy hours when calamity was absent or forgotten; they are the fruition of man's fortunate days.

  • Nor have the great affirmations of faith in God's fatherhood ever been associated with men of ease in fortunate circumstance.

  • Before the sin, the son was happy with his father near; they were companions, confidants, and to the boy fatherhood was very beautiful.

  • Fatherhood and motherhood become glorified in the light of the eternal plan of salvation.

  • Let fatherhood and motherhood be the most honored of all the professions on earth!

  • We have had revealed that High Fatherhood of which every family in heaven and earth is named; and wherever that is believed the brotherhood of men is confessed.

  • But God persevered with grace, and the story is at first continued in the figure of Fatherhood with which it commenced; then it changes to the metaphor of a humane man's goodness to his beasts.

  • Yet most I thank thee, not for any deed, But for the sense thy living self did breed Of fatherhood still at the great world's core.

  • Our hearts go out in pity for those whose mechanical ideas of the universe may be a revolt from a mechanical theology which has lost sight of the Fatherhood of God.

  • These mechanical ideas about the universe are the outcome of a mechanical theology which has lost sight of the Fatherhood of God.

  • When men see in us the hand, the heart, and the love of Christ, they will believe in the brotherhood of men and the Fatherhood of God.

  • There can be no real fatherhood and no spirit of adoption except through union with the Son of God.

  • There is in other faiths no such conception as the fatherhood of God.

  • Let Asia and Europe and America and all nations prove this New Dispensation and the true fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of men.

  • The virtue of fatherhood is not to be measured numerically.

  • We do not use them, because the national instinct of Fatherhood is not yet profoundly developed.

  • All my work in the study alone was to do just that for a larger class, and in this effort I stumbled upon the very heart of the fatherhood ideal and the educational ideal--for they are one and the same.

  • His faith in the Fatherhood of God is Jesus' most essential act.

  • What is there to prove that Jesus' distinctive faith in the Fatherhood of God ever existed independently, and not as an alternative form of the historically-conditioned Messianic consciousness?

  • For it is on that belief of God's Fatherhood that the belief of man's brotherhood rests, and on it alone can it be secured and permanently based.

  • Fraternity without Fatherhood is a ghastly mockery that ended a hundred years ago in the guillotine, and to-day will end in disappointment; and it is little more than cant.

  • The very emblem of fatherhood and sonship might teach us that that depends upon the Father's will and the Father's heart.

  • The passage before us tells us that the sense of Fatherhood which is in the Christian's heart, and becomes his cry, comes from God's Spirit.

  • The fatherhood within Thomas Singleton bounded in appreciation as he contemplated his daughter for a short space, measuring accurately the worth within her.

  • That wonderful quality in the man, the fatherhood within him, rose in surging insistence.

  • So, to our mortal eyes subdued, Flesh-veiled, but not concealed, We know in Thee the fatherhood And heart of God revealed.

  • He said: "The gracious Fatherhood Can only know above, below, Eternal purposes of good.

  • Fatherhood is a relation which the bad man can make quite an external one, not touching his personal being.

  • Man as a father is dependent, he is essentially the correlative of the son; he is not a father without the son; by fatherhood man reduces himself to a relative, dependent, impersonal being.

  • To them he first made known the gospel of equality; he told them of the Brotherhood of Man, the Fatherhood of God.

  • Following as a consequence of the fatherhood of God is the brotherhood of man.

  • This is what he says-- "It was the assertion of fatherhood which delivered the mind from natural appearances, and when this was successfully achieved, human existence was raised above the laws of natural life.

  • Fatherhood established in the first stage of the family on jealous authority, now, after a period of more or less complete obscuration, rises again as the dominant force in marriage.

  • Fatherhood really arose out of the ownership of purchase.

  • The legal acknowledgment of fatherhood in all cases had to be paid for.

  • Victorious fatherhood thus becomes as distinctly connected with the heavenly light as prolific motherhood is with the teeming earth.

  • In Bachofen's opinion this triumph of fatherhood was the final salvation.

  • Our fatherhood is to a considerable degree socialised.


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