Top Ten Quotes & Bible Verses for Father's Day

Although we should honor our fathers every day, in 1924 President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the third Sunday in June as Father's Days. Today the third Sunday in June every year still brings the special day when we honor our fathers -- Father's Day.

Father's Day reminds us to remember dear old Dad, and it also inspires some special thoughts about fathers. A look at the Bible reveals that it is also full of scripture about fathers.

Here is a list of the top ten quotes and Bible verses about dads. Feel free to pass a link to this article along to your father or add these quotes to your Father's Day cards, messages and emails.

Top Ten Quotes & Bible Verses for Father's Day

Father's Day Quotes

- When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~ Mark Twain

- Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice ~ Anonymous

- The widespread observance of this occasion is calculated to establish more intimate relations between fathers and their children and also to impress upon fathers the full measure of their obligations. ~ Calvin Coolidge

- A good father is one of the most unsung, upraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society. ~ Billy Graham

- By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. ~ Charles Wadsworth

- A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be. ~ Church Marquee

- Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad. ~ Anne Geddes

- For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time. ~ Alan Valentine

Father's Day Bible Verses

- Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land which the Lord your God gives you. ~ Exodus 20:12 (RSV)

- Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. (21) Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. ~ Colossians 3:20, 21

Also see:

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