Father Quotes
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But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray fro them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
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More Father Quotes
O my father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.
jesus christ— 26:42 (KJV).
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
father in Heaven, whenthethoughtof Thee wakesinour hearts, let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.
— Journal entry (translated by Alexander Dru,1938).
What is the character of a family to an hypothesis? my father would reply.
Laurence Sterne— 1759-67 Tristram Shandy, bk.1, ch.21.
Purandara Dasa of the fitheenth-sixteenth century, who is said to be the father of present day classical Carnatic music, initiated a system of teaching Carnatic music and presented the initial scale of notes to be taught to a beginner. Purandara Dasa was a great devotee given to spending his whole life in meditation on God and singing his praises.
— In "I Want To Be In The Creative Field", 3E (1 November 2009), P.453
There was a frightful, appalling row. As a matter of fact the Pope told us all to go to hell. He threatened to silence father Fahrt.
Cruise— 1961The Hard Life.
Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen — or better still, talk — that their parents were just as bad.
john ralston saul— "Freud"
[E]veryone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.
jesus christ— 19:29
Every plant, which my heavenly father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
jesus christ— The Gospel of Matthew 15:13–14 (KJV).
I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me.
jesus christ— John 14:6.
I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork.
— 1939 At the Circus.
He had the haughtiness of Henry the Eighth, without his spirit; the avarice of Henry the Seventh, without his exactions; the indignities of Charles the First, without his bigotry for his prerogative; the vexations of King William, with as little skill in the management of parties; and the gross gallantry of his father, without his goodnature or his honesty:– he might, perhaps, have been honest, if he had never hated his father, or had ever loved his son.
george ii of great britain— Horace Walpole Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second (1847) vol. 1, p. 180
I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me — to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks.
audre lorde— Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
jesus christ— 19:18–19 (KJV).
If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (1613), Act I, scene 4, line 26.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
mark twain
I said one Hail Maryand four Our Fathers, because I preferred the Our father to the Hail Mary and it was longer and better.
Roddy Doyle— 1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the father: Ye shall have eternal life.
— The Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 31:20.
And I am a desert creature. You see me, father? I am a desert creature.
— Who: Liet-Kynes
— Source: Dune
— Notes: Character notices that he is standing above a bubble of carbon dioxide that will eventually become a "blow" and engulf him. He thinks that is something that only desert creatures can sense, and while these are his last thoughts, they are a way of "speaking" to his dead father. He dies when he is swallowed by the blow.
" Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, that ye may be the sons of your Heavenly father, who makes the sun to shine on the good and on the evil , and the rain to fall on the just and unjust." How monstrous a calumny have not impostors dared to advance against the mild and gentle author of this just sentiment, and against the whole tenor of his doctrines and his life, overflowing with benevolence and forbearance and compassion !
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Quoting Jesus, in an unfinished Essay on Christianity (written 1815; published 1859)
I make a pact with you,Walt Whitman I have detested you long enough. I come to you as a grown child Who has had a pig-headed father I am old enough not to make friends.
— 1916 Lustra,'A Pact'.
Sir Walter, being strangely supprized and putt out of his countenance at so great a Table, gives his son a damned blow over the face; his son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face of the Gentleman that sate next to him, and sayed, Box about, 'twill come to my father anon. 'Tis now a common used Proverb.
john aubrey— "Sir Walter Raleigh"
Surely it is a matter of joy, that your faith in Jesus has been preserved; the Comforter that should relieve you is not far from you. But as you are a Christian, in the name of that Saviour, who was filled with bitterness and made druken with wormwood, I conjre you to have recourse in frequent prayer to 'his God and your God,' the God of mercies, and father of all comfort. Your poor father is, I hope, almost senseless of the calamity; the unconscious instrument of Divine Providence knows it not, and your mother is in heaven.
Charles Lamb— Letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Lamb, after the family tragedy.
How curious, after all, is the way in which we moderns think about our world! And it is all so novel, too. The cosmology underlying our mental processes is but three centuries old a mere infant in the history of thought and yet we cling to it with the same embarrassed zeal with which a young father fondles his new-born baby.
— Edwin Arthur Burtt, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science; a Historical and Critical Essay (1925)
Relying on the atonement which Christ has made, and desiring to be saved in no other way, I commit myself into Thy hands, O God, my father! Take me, and do with me as Thou seest to be for Thy glory. I consecrate myself forever to Thy service, and trust for acceptance in the merits of Thy Son.
samuel i. prime— P. 231. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Our heavenly father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies and blessings, than we are ready to believe or receive; and at the same time more terrible to the workers of iniquity, more awful in the executions of His punishments, and more ready to detect in every false way, than we are apt to suppose Him to be...
smith, joseph, jr.— The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith, 509.
Our heavenly father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies and blessings, than we are ready to believe or receive; and at the same time more terrible to the workers of iniquity, more awful in the executions of His punishments, and more ready to detect in every false way, than we are apt to suppose Him to be...
— The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith, 509.
