- Night
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Scarface,' I remember going to see that with my father. We didn't know what to expect; we did not know what to expect. I was a kid, and my father took me, and we didn't leave. It was so disturbing, but we loved it.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library.
- Greatness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a brief period in college where I flirted with the idea of becoming a lawyer because my father was one. But I was cured of it rather swiftly.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I was a child, my father was sick. I've always known him to be that way. That's why I'm proud of him - he has a disease he's obviously struggling with, but he's not letting it stop him from doing what he wants to do.
- Our Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
We shared our father with the world.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don't necessarily try to put on a show. That's what my father's thing was, and he was great at it. Everything I say is because I feel it, and it comes out of my mouth. It's not scripted.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up not really having a father figure, and it didn't bother me, because he wasn't there in the first place. But then he started other families, and I was jealous. It was like he was happy without our family.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't even give my father a proper gift. Every single Father's Day means so much to me. I'm so close to him. He's my big brother, but also my father.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
To pray is to have a conversation with Deity. This sacred and supernal communication with Heavenly Father is a divine and delicate process. This crucial communication should be conducted with great care and in compliance with sacred counsel.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
Heavenly Father has given us a priceless gift in our capacity to communicate with each other. Our communications are at the core of our relationships with others. If we are to return home safely to Heavenly Father, we must develop righteous relationships with His children here in mortality.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020