70+ Father’s Day Quotes for Father In Heaven – Nostalgic, Grateful and More

Searching for Father’s Day quotes for your father in heaven? We know how hard it can be, so we’ve gathered the best quotes to make him feel loved in heaven.

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Nostalgic Father’s Day Quotes for Father In Heaven

1. This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments – and you get the tears at the end, too. – Harlan Coben​​.
2. I love my father as the stars—he’s a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart. – Adabella Radici​
3. No matter how old we are, we still need our dads, and wonder how we’ll get by without them. – Jennifer Williamson
4. When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires. – Jodi Picoult
5. No matter where I am, your spirit will be beside me. For I know that no matter what, you will always be with me. – Tram-Tiara T. Von Reichenbach
6. Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him. – Louisa May Alcott
7. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping. – John Sinor
9. I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection. — Sigmund Freud​
10. Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow. — Reed Markham​
11. My father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic. — Spike Milligan

Grateful Father’s Day Quotes for Father In Heaven

1. Daddies don’t just love their children every now and then, it’s a love without end. Amen. – George Strait
2. I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom. – Umberto Eco
3. Out of a sense of duty and, perhaps, love, [a man] adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector who would keep the lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. – Tom Wolfe
4. In the end, that’s what being a parent is all about – those precious moments with our children that fill us with pride and excitement for their future, the chances we have to set an example or offer a piece of advice, the opportunities to just be there and show them that we love them. – Barack Obama
5. A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man. – Marlon Brando, The Godfather
6. The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking. – Dan Pearce
7. There is no expiration date on the love between a father and his child. – Jennifer Williamson
8. When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. – Hebrew Proverb
9. Love has no age, no limit, and no death. – John Galsworthy
10. My appreciation for my father’s greatness cannot be measured. – Jennifer Williamson

Inspiring Father’s Day Quotes for Father In Heaven

1. My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. – Jim Valvano
2. My father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future. – Liza Minnelli
3. Dad is and always will be my living, breathing superhero. – Bindi Irwin
4. I think about me and my dad taking a road trip from Phoenix to Nashville when I was 19. He’s no longer here with me, but I still drive that same 1994 Chevy truck. I never have bought a new car. – Dierks Bentley
5. Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, and singers of song. – Pam Brown
6. A father doesn’t tell you that he loves you. He shows you. – Dimitri the Stoneheart
7. My strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father…I have rarely ever met a person more fearless and courageous than my father. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
8. Good fathers do three things: they provide, they nurture, and they guide. – Roland Warren
9. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father. — Barack Obama​
10. Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I’m just glad I can share my voice. — Dwyane Wade
11. Fatherhood is the best thing I ever did. It changes your perspective. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I have taken on. — Brad Pitt​
12. An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. — C.S. Lewis​​

Short Father’s Day Quotes for Father In Heaven

1. You will always be in my heart…because in there you’re still alive. – Jamie Cirello
2. Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father. — Lydia Maria Child​​
3. The greatest thing a father can do for his children is love their mother. — Anjaneth Garcia Untalan​​.
4. To her, the name of father was another name for love. – Fanny Fern
5. It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. – Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
6. A father’s smile has been known to light up a child’s entire day. – Susan Gale
7. A father’s love is forever imprinted on his child’s heart. – Jennifer Williamson
8. Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was. – Hebrew Proverb
9. The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature. – Antoine Francois Prevost
10. Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. –  Ruth E. Renkel

Christian Father’s Day Quotes for Father In Heaven

1. The righteous man walks in his integrity; his children are blessed after him. – Proverbs 20:7
2. As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him. – Psalm 103:13
3. Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. – Ephesians 6:4
4. I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, but my steadfast love will not depart from him. – 2 Samuel 7:14-15
5. My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights. – Proverbs 3:11-12
6. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. – Joshua 1:9
7. Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. – Psalm 127:3-5
8. Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. – Proverbs 4:1-2
9. He will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers… – Malachi 4:6
10. In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge. – Proverbs 14:26
11. God is described as a father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, emphasizing His protective and nurturing nature. – Psalm 68:5
12. Wisdom is in the sight of the understanding, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth, highlighting the value of a father’s wise guidance. – Proverbs 17:24
13. Though you might have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the gospel. – 1 Corinthians 4:15
14. The Lord promises to instruct and teach the way which you should go, mirroring a father’s guidance and protection. – Psalm 32:7-8
15. Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it, reflecting a father’s enduring influence. – Proverbs 22:6

Father’s Day Quotes for Father In Heaven Who Passed Recently

1. Although our lives’ journeys have bid us to be apart, I am with you, you are with me, always in our hearts. – Carolyn Ferreira
2. I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day. – Mitch Albom
3. Deeply, I know this, that love triumphs over death. My father continues to be loved, and therefore he remains by my side. – Jennifer Williamson
4. I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father’s waist, hug him back. And I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way. – Jodi Picoult
5. What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes part of us. – Helen Keller
6. A father is someone who is proud to see you get your first car, but secretly wishes it had no keys. – Linda Poindexter
7. When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back. – Linda Poindexter​​
8. A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be. – Frank A. Clark
9. If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever. – Winnie the Pooh
10. Those we love don’t go away, they sit beside us every day. – Liane Moriarty
11. Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten. – Conrad Hall

Father’s Day Quotes for Father In Heaven Who Passed Long Ago

1. Let me tell you, he is the hole in my heart. His loss is my scar. But let me tell you something, his memory drives me forward every single day of my life. – Michelle Obama
2. It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. — Anne Sexton
3. Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. – Gloria Naylor
4. My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it. – Natasha Josefowitz
5. You have been there for me, no matter what bad choices I might have made… you lovingly repaired my broken spirit, helped me plot a new course, and set me free to fly on my own once again. There is no greater love than that. You will always be special to me, and no matter where life takes me, I’ll remember you with love. – Marilyn K. Deacon
6. It’s like a telescope. My dad, no matter what he’s doing, zooms right in so he can’t see anything except what’s right there with him at that minute. My mom, she’s always on wide angle. – Jodi Picoult
7. No man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much. – Hedy Lamarr
8. I only hope when I have my own family that every day I see a little more of my father in me. –  Keith Urban

Conclusion

Father’s Day is a time to celebrate and these messages are designed to fill his heart with joy, even in heaven. Just remember to cherish and appreciate the loved ones who are still by your side.