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But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.

I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

I did nothing to deserve God's love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with me, and through the death of his son Jesus, I was adopted into God's family.

I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.

Because I never thought the Lord would treat me any different from any other honest man or that I had an official position that compelled the Lord to help me in any other way than He would help any other man.

If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if they've had a competitive relationship with their own father.

God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with.