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- 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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were transported into my father's shoes, I would have been a Labour supporter, too, because in the 1960s and even in the 1970s, the Conservatives weren't standing up for working people; there was too much of an interest in corporatism, and that didn't start to change till Margaret Thatcher came along.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, it was an amazing experience. I saw where my father came from. I was given a royal welcome in El Bireh - they even slaughtered a sheep in my honor.
- Adventure
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble man of adventure who had no choice.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. I've never been to Iran, I don't speak the language, and, probably most important of all, my Iranian father left home when I was nine months old. That's the extent of my connection to Iran.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
O most merciful Father, put far from me all my iniquities and all my offences; so that, by Thee made whole in body and in soul, I may be accounted worthy to approach the Holy of holies.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism has been given us by the Savior, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, so, in accordance with our baptism, we make the confession of the creed, and our doxology in accordance with our creed.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look a lot like my father and his mother.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a very difficult man.
- Nov 07, 2020
Jurgen Klopp is like my father.
- Brave Men
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- Nov 07, 2020