Father Quotes
So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in Our Father's goodness.
My father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ!
Almighty Father! let thy lowly child, Strong in his love of truth, be wisely bold,-- A patriot bard, by sycophants reviled. Let him live usefully, and not die old!
The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose sigh is the wind, paint us a rainbow without any end.
My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.
The reason that people do not have a rich, beautiful faith is that their spirit is denied the privilege of communion and fellowship with the Father.
I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.
She became a very famous, very popular young girl. Before that, she was my daughter, but now I'm her father.
Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.
Every human being is loved by God the Father. No one need feel forgotten, for every name is written in the Lord's loving heart.
My father was a very successful businessman, but he was ruined in the stock market crash. A big stockbroker jumped out the window and fell on his pushcart.
Heavenly Father hears your prayers, He loves you. He knows your name. He loves you beyond your ability to comprehend.
Father, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth.
The Devil is a Five-headed Snake, says the father. The son says, Nay, it's a Six-headed one. And then their hearts burn with hate for each others - and they live apart for many years.
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people
At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen my father died; my response to his death was atheistic.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to").
He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.
The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.
When a Father takes the child by the hand, he takes the Mother by the Heart.... The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.
My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.
Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by the demands of his safety this must be done.
This is and has been the Father's work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.
I don't mind praying to the Eternal Father, but I must be the only man in the country afflicted with an eternal mother.
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay.
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.
I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.
God the Father's a deep root; the Son's the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance
If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.
The fact is that you can't have a good relationship with a girl who hasn't settled things with her father.
We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.