Father Quotes

In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest distance to the father's house.

The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.

Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's.

The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.

What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.

I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.

The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings.

Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

The Our Father contains all the duties we owe to God, the acts of all the virtues and the petitions for all our spiritual and corporal needs.

He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.

Full fathom five thy father lies

Parkour does not have to be liked or disliked! Parkour is here and it will stay here forever! Because it was born from a pure heart and nourished from all the love that a son can give to his father!

When I was born ... the doctor came out to the waiting room and said to my father ... I'm very sorry. We did everything we could ... but he pulled through.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change

Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.

Children should have a balanced start in life: a mother and a father. I think that's the only reason to get married.

For Christ plays in ten thousand places,/ Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his/ To the Father through the features of men’s faces.

God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.

Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

We were not sent by Father in Heaven just to be born. We were sent to endure and return to Him with honor.

We are never alone when we stand with our Father in Heaven.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist

My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.

God's care for us is more watchful and more tender than the care of any human father could possibly be.

The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction so that sinners might be saved with no sacrifice of God’s justice.

I'm a big fan of moustaches. I think it's because - and this is not Freudian innuendo at all - my father has a moustache.

As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do, as under God's eye, though no other eye ever take note of it.

I became the leader because of my father's leadership and I was considered as powerful as same as my own father.

You are not invisible to your Heavenly Father. He loves you.

My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.

If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

Father, forgive them,' said Jesus, 'for they know not what they do' -- People of good sense whoever you may be, I will add, do not listen to them, for they know not what they say.

Your accord and harmonious love is a hymn to Jesus Christ...in perfect harmony, and taking your pitch from God, you may sing in unison and in one voice to the Father through Jesus Christ.

Thou O Lord, art my Father and Thou my Mother. Thou art the Giver of peace to my soul and very life.

My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.

As daughters of our Heavenly Father, and as daughters of Eve, we are all mothers and we have always been mothers. And we each have the responsibility to love and help lead the rising generation.

My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.

My mother, my father, I love 'em, I hate 'em, wish god I didnt have 'em, but thank god that he made 'em

I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.

I didn't know at first that there were two languages in Canada.I just thought that there was one way to speak to my father and another to talk to my mother.

Every time you and I bow our heads in surrender to the will of God, we embrace the cross and we manifest to the world the heart of Christ who bowed His head to the will of His Father.

There is a work that my father had started, a dream he had dreamt. I come to you today saying...allow me to turn that dream into reality

The most important thing about being a father is being able to forgive yourself. If you don't forgive yourself, you're not going to forgive your kids, either.

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

A clear rule for self-control handed down by the Fathers is this: stop eating while still hungry and do not continue until you are satisfied.