Top 1200 Our Father Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Some fathers and sons don't get along that well when they're younger because they can't find a way to reach each other, ... A father loves you dearly but you don't see it and so you're always trying to please your father, but your father doesn't let you know how he feels, which is, you don't have to please him because he already loves you.

The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.

Our Father knew exactly what He was doing when He created us. He made us enough alike to love each other, but enough different that we would need to unite our strengths and stewardships to create a whole.

I was trying to find out who my father was. They say that at that time, that if you are illegitimate, the father doesn't have to put his name down on the certificate.

My father never played with me. I can remember my father picking me up - once. I can remember my father telling me behind a closed door that he loved me - once.

In person, my father is so friendly, so considerate, so funny, and so real. I have admired my father all of my life, and I love him with all my heart.

God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children

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

I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man as father. I do not trust man as father.

My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy.

I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years.

My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of the Chorus,' as Marilyn Monroe's father.

My father is not that comfortable with children, but he's a terrific father for an adult.

Sometimes we forget that our Heavenly Father desires that each of us have this joy.

When the father dies, he writes, the son becomes his own father and his own son. He looks at is son and sees himself in the face of the boy. He imagines what the boy sees when he looks at him and finds himself becoming his own father. Inexplicably, he is moved by this. It is not just the sight of the boy that moves him, not even the thought of standing inside his father, but what he sees in the boy of his own vanished past. It is a nostalgia for his own life that he feels, perhaps, a memory of his own boyhood as a son to his father.

We have not yet received our kingdoms, neither will we, until we have finished our work on earth . . . . Then he that has overcome and is found worthy, will be made a king of kings, a lord of lords over his own posterity, or in other words: A father of fathers.

I was 11 when my father died, so I didn't know my father so well.

My father had to play the role of mother and father.

My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs in our time are not to bring human history to an abrupt, unpleasant and discreditable end.

We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.

I think I know now that you can't do this sort of climbing and have a domestic side. You're not a practicing father if you're not there. You're maybe a visiting father.

My father is my father, and I am me. I have the advantage of this honest comparison, quiet, and the opportunity to share in his profession.

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.

There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.

Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend.

The marquee scrolling across our minds trying to reinterpret life reads: "God-Against-Us." This becomes the dominant lens through which our flesh interprets life. We no longer give our loving Father the benefit of the doubt. Instead, we view every event as conclusive proof that God is against us.

I do not believe we can truly enter into our own inner pain and wounds and open our hearts to others unless we have had an experience of God, unless we have been touched by God. We must be touched by the Father in order to experience, as the prodigal son did, that no matter how wounded we may be, we are loved. And not only are we loved, but we too are called to heal and to liberate. This healing power in us will not come from our capacities and our riches, but in and through our poverty. We are called to discover that God can bring peace, compassion and love through our wounds.

Woody Allen - legally, ethically, personally - was absolutely a father in our family.

I don't view it as mystic. I believe that God is our father. He created us. He is powerful because he knows everything. Therefore everything I learn that is true makes me more like my father in heaven. When science seems to contradict religion, then one, the other, or both are wrong, or incomplete. Truth is not incompatible with itself. When I benefit from science it's actually not correct for me to say it resulted from science and not from God. They work in concert.

Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee.

Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage.

Alia and Shaheen have a smart father and have got good genes. But it's not fair that people expect them to do as well as their father.

I am a father, and I know the feel of being a father. Why wouldn't I want my gay friends to also be happy parents?

Everything in our family was always boxing. It was the life my father chose for me.

'East of Eden' is an important story for me. It's about a kid that's misunderstood and feels like he's not loved by his father. It's a very father-son kind of story, and it's not until the end that they sort of make up. I like that because every boy has trouble with his father, so it's very relatable.

I can't say I had an ideal father, and I'm not a father myself.

My father is sort of the jokester. My dad is still the funniest guy in our family.

I love my father. I disagreed with him. But he was my father. He was the boss.

Prayer endows us with the power to draw near to our Eternal Father.

The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.

Our son Gautam is very shy, just like his father.

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.

My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

Being a father is sometimes my hardest but always my most rewarding job. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there.

My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

One key and defining attribute of God that does not appear in any other world religion or system is the biblical use of the term "Father." Over 70 times in the New Testament alone, God is described as "Father" to His children. No major world religion describes the relationship between its creator and its adherents in terms of a father.

I love all our Father's children of every color, creed, and political persuasion.

Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

My father didn't know about cricket. Then, one of my father's friend advised him to take me to a coaching camp.

My father? My father left when I was quite young. Well actually, he was asked to leave. He had trouble metabolizing alcohol.

Tuff Gong is the name of our father's enterprise, and we're continuing his legacy.

I'm a father of four girls and I know very much about the relationship between a father and his daughters.

The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.

God Bless my mother and father for all the hard work they've done for our family.

I was a little bit ashamed of American TV because I thought, 'None of the shows my father works on are as funny as my father.'

Do not be afraid! Our Father is patient, he loves us, he gives us Jesus to guide us on the way which leads to the promised land. Jesus is the light who brightens the darkness. He is our peace.