Is Fatherhood just an Institution?

"Sons of great men have sometimes remembered their father as an institution rather than as a father, and God is to some of His children little more than an institution. It was not thus that Jesus revealed Him. ..... There are many revelations of the Divine Glory and Majesty, and it is well to ponder them in adoring worship; but Jesus turned them into terms of filial value. He is our Father. That is the crowning fact. Others may cringe in fear, but the child heart is a stranger to terror."

Samuel Chadwick from the book "God Listens to the Crying Heart in The Secret Place".