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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
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
- Lord
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.
- Nov 07, 2020
I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's card-playing buddies treated me as a plain, ordinary, commonplace kid destined for mediocrity - or less. I suppose they expected that I would spend my life as a clerk of some sort.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
To have a dutiful family, the father's principle of rule must be love, not fear. His sway must be gentle, or he will have only an unwilling and short-lived obedience.
- Father Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.
- Doing The Right Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?
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- Nov 07, 2020