He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew10:37^9.

But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: For Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew12:39^40.

When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holyangels with him, then shall he sit upon thethrone of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 25:31^3.

   And he said unto them,The sabbath was made for man, and not manfor thesabbath:Thereforethe Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Mark 2:27^8.

And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Mark15:39.

And so it was, that, whilethey were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke 2:6^7.

And intowhatsoeverhouseye enter, first say,Peacebeto this house. And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again. And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke10:5^7.

And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke15:13.

And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke15:16^19.

And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. But the father said to his servants, Bring forththebest robe, and put itonhim; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it: and let us eat, and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke15:20^4.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John 3:16.

If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John 8:36.

When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John19:26^7.

And I believe in the Holy Ghost,The Lord and giver of life,Who proceedeth fromthe Father and Son,Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified,Who spake by the Prophets.

-Book of Common Prayer
Holy Communion, Nicene Creed.

Why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest? Punish a body which he could not please; Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease? And all to leave what with his toil he won To that unfeathered two-legged thing, a son.

-Dryden,John
Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.165^70.

To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College: they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life.

-Gibbon, Edward
Memoirs of My Life (published1796), ch.3.

I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.

-Gibbon, Edward
On his enforced visit to Lausanne, leaving behind Suzanne Curchod. Memoirs of My Life (published1796), ch.4. This passage was inserted (from a draft) by Lord Sheffield.

He would certainly have despised Christ for being the son of a carpenter, if the NewTestament had not proved in time to be such a howling commercial success.

-Greene, (Henry) Graham
  Dr Fischer of Geneva, ch.7.

And the three men I admired most, The Father, Son and Holy Ghost, They caught the last train for the coast The day the music died.

-McLean, Don
  'American Pie'.

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.

-Marquand,John P(hillips)
  The Late George Apley, ch.10.