- Nov 07, 2020
Father Quotes
On fathers, faith, and what gets passed down.
This collection includes a personal account of learning Catholic prayer practice during a conversion, and a decision two parents made together about which faith tradition their child would follow. For devotional reading, see Prayers.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love all our Father's children of every color, creed, and political persuasion.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I'm like any other concerned father, except that nobody else's son guns a cycle over 17 pickups without holding on to the handlebars.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I personally was involved in going over to Afghanistan to meet the troops. My father was a marine, so that was just amazing.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
While romanticizing the Senate of yore would be a mistake, it was certainly better in my father's time.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, Birch Bayh, represented Indiana in the Senate from 1963 to 1981. A progressive, he nonetheless enjoyed many friendships with moderate Republicans and Southern Democrats.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020