A Quote by James E. Faust

Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration.

James E. Faust

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James E. Faust
American - Priest
July 31, 1920 - August 10, 2007

The Lord has directed, Bring up your children in light and truth. To me, there is no more important human effort. Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge; it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration. President David O. McKay (1873-1970) stated that being parents is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

James E. Faust

The great challenge is to discover that we are truly invited to participate in the divine life of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Henri Nouwen

Man is afraid, the world is a strange world, and man wants to be secure, safe. In childhood the father protects, the mother protects. But there are many people, millions of them, who never grow beyond their childhoods. They remain stuck somewhere, and they still need a father and a mother. Hence God is called the Father or the Mother. They need a divine Father to protect them; they are not mature enough to be on their own. They need some security.

Rajneesh

When we see all women as the divine mother and all men as the divine father, everyone you meet is sacred.

Stephen Levine

God-realization is attained only by great effort on the part of the yogi and by divine grace.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.

Ann Voskamp

The true lasting quietness... comes from a complete consecration to the Divine

Mirra Alfassa

I'm a great mother because of my intentions on being a great mother; I'm a good friend because I'm loyal; I'm a good daughter because I've hopefully made my mother proud; I'm a great human being because I accept that there's a spiritual being underneath it all. I've always been a woman of faith.

Lauren London

I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother's side it's more mixture, with a Filipino mother and a father who was Scotch Irish-French; you know, white American hybrid. And I also have on my father's side a great-great-grandmother who was Chinese. So, I'm a hybrid.

Jessica Hagedorn

Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.

Ban Ki-moon

Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the music. For what has been spoiled by the father can only be made good by a father, just as what has been spoiled by the mother can only be repaired by a mother. The disastrous repetition of the family pattern could be described as the psychological original sin, or as the curse of the Atrides running through the generations.

Carl Jung

Fathers, yours is an eternal calling from which you are never released. Callings in the Church, as important as they are, by their very nature are only for a period of time, and then an appropriate release takes place. But a father's calling is eternal, and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.

Ezra Taft Benson

Being a father ... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business.

J. M. Coetzee

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

William Standish Knowles

A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.

Leah Ward Sears

My mother's mother is Jewish and African, so I guess that would be considered Creole. My mother's father was Cherokee Indian and something else. My dad's mother's Puerto Rican and black, and his father was from Barbados.

Meagan Good

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