Top 1200 Our Father Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.

Our Father, here I am, at your disposal, your child, to use me to continue your loving the world, by giving Jesus to me and through me, to each other that we allow Jesus to love in us and through us with the love with which His Father loves him.

My father was an amazing guy. Twenty years in the Navy, great father.

I had a fantastic father, Jack Sharp, and I will always carry him in my heart as my father.

My father served 26 years in the Air Force as a pilot and a pioneer in our missile programs. I learned early about the sacrifices a family makes when a member is repeatedly deployed, and also the fulfillment that comes from serving our country. My brother, my son and I all became Marines.

I learned a lot from my father. I'm very lucky to have a father who was a professional athlete.

It's funny because my mom is not a singer at all, nor is my father. But I definitely get more of my father's tone.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales.

I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.

I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.

Nothing compares with the satisfaction of pleasing the heart of our heavenly Father.

My father believed young people are among our nation's most valuable resources, and so we should ensure that every child - including children and youth returning from the justice system - have access to the opportunities we would want for our own children.

A significant regret is that I was not as good a father as I would have ideally liked to be. I was not, I think, a bad father.

I'm a hopeless father. I don't know why. I don't think I was supposed to be a father.

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

I understand now my father really thought he was doing me good. Education means a lot to Palestinians. We’ve become some of the most educated people in the world through our diaspora. We’ve had to be. When you ain’t got land, your degree may be your only solid ground. May father felt (feels) that being a doctor would give me security. How can I explain that I’m not safe from anything if I don’t write?

I think you have to be a father to understand those feelings... that happiness of being a father.

My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

I have no worthwhile memories of my father, therefore no idea of what a father's role should be.

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

We don't always know the details of our future. We do not know what lies ahead. We live in a time of uncertainty. We are surrounded by challenges on all sides. Occasionally discouragement may sneak in to our day; frustration may invite itself into our thinking; doubt might enter about the value of our work. In these dark moments Satan whispers in our ears that we will never be able to succeed, that the price isn't work the effort, and that our small part will never make a difference. He, the father of all lies, will try to prevent us from seeing the end from the beginning.

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

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

My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.

The pure love of Christ can remove the scales of resentment and wrath from our eyes, allowing us to see others the way our Heavenly Father sees us: as flawed and imperfect mortals who have potential and worth far beyond our capacity to imagine. Because God loves us so much, we too must love and forgive each other.

I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companies.

When I was a child, my father used to encourage my brother and me to fail. At the dinner table, instead of asking about the best part of our day, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something to tell him, he would be disappointed. When we shared whatever failure we'd endured, he'd high-five us and say, 'Way to go!' The gift my father gave us by doing this was redefining what failure truly meant.

My father-in-law was a nuclear-submarine captain. My father was in the military.

We can ...start making our way back to the Father. We should do so with as much haste and humility as we can summon. Along the way we can count our many blessings and we can applaud the accomplishments of others. Best of all we can serve others.

Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close and nurturing, not distant and authoritarian. Fatherhood as more than bread winning. Fatherhood as new-and-improved masculinity. Fathers unafraid of feelings. Fathers without sexism. Fatherhood as fifty-fifty parenthood, undistorted by arbitrary gender divisions or stifling social roles.

We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.

I rightfully respect Killer Mike a hundred percent. He knows my father; he's known my father for years.

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.

If you always meditate on sin, "I am a sinner, I am a sinner," actually you will become a sinner. The psychological approach is, you should forget it - even if you are a sinner, you should think, "I am the son of a Great Father, I am the daughter of a Great Father." Thus you are meditating on the Great Father, and a day is sure to come when you will become one with your Great Father.

A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if they've had a competitive relationship with their own father.

I was barely 17 when our father decided to part ways with my mother.

I was pampered by all my father's directors and producers during childhood. But at home, my father made sure I led a normal life.

It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.

To every little girl, her father is a hero. My father actually is one.

My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.

I was attracted to cricket at a very young age. My father's elder brother Akram Siddiq saw the passion for cricket in me, so he pushed me, and then another uncle - father of Kamran, Umar, and Adnan Akmal - advised my father to work hard on me, as he thought that I will make it big in cricket.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

If you have a sorrow that you cannot tell to anyone, you can go to our Father in Heaven.

To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.

All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.

My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.

I will follow in my father's footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful leader.

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.

My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.

I think we all have something in our life's experience that makes us feel different. It's whether we have a gay parent or we have an alcoholic mother or maybe we don't know our father. And it's something that we feel bad about initially because we think we're abnormal. What's abnormal is our assumption that there's something called 'normal.'

He was an abusive father. He was never a father to me growing up as a kid.

Our prayer must be, "Father, I'm waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it.

The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the young child instinctively regards the mother as the supreme authority. He looks upon the father as equal with himself, equally subject to the woman's rule. Children have to be taught to love, honor, and respect the father, a task usually assumed by the mother.

As its citizens humbly recommit to an acceptance of guidance from the God of our fathers, our nation will once again see the miraculous resurrection of the proud, responsible, visionary black father. And with him, his family and community will be lifted.