- Grace
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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
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family is Abenaki Indian on my mother's side. My father's side of the family is Slovak, and we also have some English ancestry.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a blue-collar family. My father worked at the American Can Company as a mechanic. He broke his back and was disabled, and the first memory I have of him is in the hospital. My mother was a working mother - she had two jobs. Everybody in the house had to help out.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
- Jesus Christ
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we reach out to assist the least of Heavenly Father's children, we do it unto Him. That is the essence of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
- Heavenly Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although we might settle for less, Heavenly Father won't, for he sees us as the glorious beings we are capable of becoming.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not even death can take us from the eternal blessings promised by a loving Heavenly Father.
- Busy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.
- Decorative
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My love for artichokes comes from when I was very young. My mother and father would slice the hearts and fry them, and they would be crispy around the leaves and tender at the base.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up watching and learning from the ultimate partnership, and that is of my father and late uncle.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
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- Nov 07, 2020