Quotes about father
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“We want Jesus as the visibly resurrected one, as the splendid, transfigured Jesus. We want his visible power and glory, and we no longer want to return to the cross, to believing against all appearances, to suffering in faith … it is good here... let us make dwellings. …
The disciples are not allowed to do this. God's glory comes quite near in the radiant cloud of God's presence, and the Father's voice says: "This is my beloved son; listen to him!" … There is no abiding in and enjoying his visible glory here. Whoever recognizes the transfigured Jesus, whoever recognizes Jesus as God, must also immediately recognize Him as the crucified human being, and should hear him, obey him. Luther's vision of Christ: "the crucified Lord!"”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi

… Now the disciples are overcome by fear. Now they comprehend what is going on. They were, after all, still in the world, unable to bear such glory. They sinned against God's glory.

p. 3
Meditations on the Cross (1996), Back to the Cross

God, Making love, Faith, Suffering

“The relationships between mother, father and children, family trees and genealogies, preferential treatment of relatives and alliances through marriage furnish us with some of the few really good and useful comparative concepts we have in anthropology. They exist everywhere in one form or another, and they differ in interesting ways. If the ultimate goal is to discover the unity of humanity through its manifold appearances, the profession cannot afford to let go of the still rich gold mine of kinship.”

Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1962) Norwegian social anthropologist and professor

Source: What is Anthropology? (2nd ed., 2017), Ch. 6 : Kinship

Marriage, Children, Family, Way

“Because I love My Father, I do always the things that are pleasing to Him.”

Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880–1906) French Carmelite nun and mystic

Thus spoke our holy Master, and every soul who wants to live close to Him must also live this maxim. The divine good pleasure must be its food, its daily bread; it must let itself be immolated by all the Father's wishes in the likeness of His adored Christ. Each incident, each event, each suffering, as well as each joy, is a sacrament which gives God to it; so it no longer makes a distinction between these things; it surmounts them, goes beyond them to rest in its Master, above all things.

Third Day, 10
Heaven in Faith (1906)

Love, Making love

“I have found heaven on earth, since heaven is God and God is in my soul. The day I understood that, everything became clear to me, and I would like to share this secret with all those I love so that they, too, might cling to God through everything, so that this prayer of Christ might be fulfilled: "Father, may they be made perfectly one!"”

Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880–1906) French Carmelite nun and mystic

Letters to Madame de Sourdon, L 122, 15 June 1902; as quoted in Always Believe in Love: Selected Writings of Elizabeth of the Trinity by Marian Murphy, 2017, p. 109 https://books.google.it/books?id=JX3LDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA109.

Love, God, Secret, Making love

“Have I not told you that the white men are as thick as the blades of grass' I have been to the lodge of the Great Father. I know what I say! Now break up your council of war. Leave here - and I will make you a great feast.”

Eagle Woman (1820–1888) American peace activist (born 1820, near Big Bend of the Missouri River [in what is now South Dakota], U.S.…

Speaking to an angry mob of 5,000 which had surrounded the general store on the Grand River reservation, as quoted in Eagle Woman Who All Look At, 2010, South Dakota Hall of Fame – Champions of Excellence, 2019-08-15 http://sdexcellence.org/Eagle_Woman_Who_All_Look_At_2010,

Men, War, Making love, Grass

“Since the idea of order and subordination succumbed to barbarian brawn and brutality in the fifth century, the civilized world has been like a child brought up by his father. It has needed the great mother heart to teach it to be pitiful, to love mercy, to succor the weak and care for the lowly.”

Anna J. Cooper (1858–1964) African-American author, educator, speaker and scholar

Source: A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South (1892), p. 51

Love, World, Making love, Idea

“My father used to say that we surrendered our youth to purchase wisdom. What he never told me was how badly we get cheated on the exchange rate!”

Morris West (1916–1999) Australian writer

Prince Alessandro Farnese di Mongrifone in Book 1. London: Mandarin, 1993, p. 176
The Lovers (1993)

Wisdom, Youth, Cheating

“America's Founding Fathers wrote a Constitution that never once uses the words "corporation," "company," or "political parties."”

Ralph Nader (1934) American consumer rights activist and corporate critic

Their use of language reflected their antipathy toward the domineering influence of empire and big business... If "We the People" are the sole subjects of the Constitution, why is it that we are ruled by large corporations and their largely indentured servants—the Republican and Democratic Parties... "We the People" have allowed these plutocratic forces to slowly siphon away our power.
Breaking Through Power (2016)

“The three sons of Noah had the whole world divided amongst them by their Father; for of them was the whole world overspread, according to the benediction given to him and his sons: "Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth."”

Robert Filmer book Patriarcha

Most of the civilest nations of the earth labour to fetch their original from some one of the sons or nephews of Noah, which were scattered abroad after the confusion of Babel. In this dispersion we must certainly find the establishment of regal power throughout the kingdoms of the world.

p. 58
Patriarcha

World

“Mercy from the Father and the Mother, mercy from the Sister and the Brother, Mercy from the Bastard, five times mercy, High Ones, we beseech you.… Mercy, High Ones. Not justice, please, not justice. We would all be fools to pray for justice.”

Lois McMaster Bujold (1949) Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA

World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000)

Justice, Fools, Sister, Time

“You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest.
You ask me to dig for stones! Shall I dig under her skin for bones? Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born again.
You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it and be rich like white men, but how dare I cut my mother's hair?
I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come to their bodies again. We must wait here in the homes of our fathers and be ready to meet them in the bosom of our mother.”

Smohalla (1815–1895) Native American prophet-dreamer

As quoted in The Ghost-Dance Religion and Wounded Knee (1890) by James Mooney on page 721; it has been sometimes also ascribed to w:Wovoka, which seems misappropriated as Mooney himself mentions Wovoka in the same book from page 765 on. "It is perhaps the most commonly cited piece of evidence documenting the Native American belief in Mother Earth. […]They rarely place the statement in the context in which Mooney presented it, that is, the history of millenarian movements spawned in part by the pressures Native American felt from the European-Americans' insatiable desire for land […] it is a direct response to 'white' pressures placed on native relationships with the land." From Mother Earth. An American Story. https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo5975950.html

Life, Men, People, Making love

“It is better for a girl to marry in such a time when she would begin menstruation at her husband's house rather than her father's home.
Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven.”

Ruhollah Khomeini (1902–1989) Religious leader, politician

attributed in page 85 https://books.google.ca/books?id=QSk0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA85 of 2017 book by Doreen Chilia-Jones "Say What?: 670 Quotes That Should Never Have Been Said" although no further source details are presence in the above book, its presence in the fourth (1990) edition of the "Tahrirolvasyleh" was alleged since December 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20050106170121/http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/348 Attributed

Home, Girl, Time, Housing

“Arabs are not the sons of the desert, but its father.”

Claude Scudamore Jarvis (1879–1953) British journalist

citation needed

“The enemy is at the gates of the city. The day is perhaps not far off when our breasts will be the last defence for our country. We are the children of the Revolution. Let us take inspiration from our fathers of 1792, and, like them, we will conquer.”

Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929) French politician

Poster (23 September 1870) during the Franco-Prussian War, quoted in David Robin Watson, Georges Clemenceau: A Political Biography (London: Eyre Methuen, 1974), p. 38

Children, Country

“If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life.”

Thomas Merton book The Seven Storey Mountain

That is to say, all men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation and power, cut themselves off from that charity which is the principle of all spiritual vitality and happiness because it alone saves us from the barren wilderness of our own abominable selfishness.

p. 147
The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)

Love, Life, World, Making love

“Everybody's just waiting to hear from the one
Who can give them the answers
And lead them back to that place in the warmth of the sun
Where sweet childhood still dances
Who'll come along
And hold out that strong
But gentle fathers hand?”

Jackson Browne (1948) American singer-songwriter

Source: For Everyman, from For Everyman (1973)

Strong, Waiting, Sun, Dance

“Young people have a special place in the heart of the Holy Father, who often repeats that the whole Church looks to them with particular hope for a new beginning of evangelization.”

Pope John Paul II book Crossing the Threshold of Hope

Paul II, Pope John. Crossing the Threshold of Hope, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Crossing the Threshold of Hope (1994)

People, Hope, Heart

“Thinking as I do that the Creator of this World is a very Cruel Being & being a Worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: "the Son, O how unlike the Father!"”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

First God Almighty comes with a Thump on the Head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.

A Vision of the Last Judgment
1810s

World, Thinking, Help, Christ

“An artist is the magician put among men to gratify — capriciously — their urge for immortality. The temples are built and brought down around him, continuously and contiguously, from Troy to the fields of Flanders. If there is any meaning in any of it, it is in what survives as art, yes even in the celebration of tyrants, yes even in the celebration of nonentities. What now of the Trojan War if it had been passed over by the artist's touch? Dust. A forgotten expedition prompted by Greek merchants looking for new markets. A minor redistribution of broken pots. But it is we who stand enriched, by a tale of heroes, of a golden apple, a wooden horse, a face that launched a thousand ships — and above all, of Ulysses, the wanderer, the most human, the most complete of all heroes — husband, father, son, lover, farmer, soldier, pacifist, politician, inventor and adventurer.”

Tom Stoppard Travesties

Joyce, Act I
Stoppard called this "the most important" speech in the play
Source: Travesties (1974)

Men, War, Art, Lovers

“You should be talking to a doctor of theology, not a Father of Lies. The distinction is subtle but real.”

James K. Morrow (1947) (1947-) science fiction author

Source: Blameless in Abaddon (1996), Chapter 7 (p. 154; spoken by the Devil)

“I am the Father of Lies. Over the years, my children have done me proud. I shouldn’t play favorites, but I am especially pleased with “The meek shall inherit the earth.” Likewise, I shall always retain a soft spot in my heart for “Every cloud has a silver lining.””

James K. Morrow (1947) (1947-) science fiction author

As for “Time heals all wounds” and “Whenever God closes a door, He opens a window”—they, too, make me gloat unconscionably.
Source: Blameless in Abaddon (1996), Chapter 1 (p. 13; spoken by the Devil)

Children, Heart

“I also come from a matriarchal family. My grandmother was left alone, not by choice. And then my mother as well. We lost my father when I was 16; he died. I was an adolescent figuring out that you’re not really worth much when you’re all women…”

Lila Downs (1968) Mexican American singer-songwriter

On how her village shunned Downs’ solely female household in “Lila Downs Reminds Us of the Strength Women Bring to Latin America and its History” https://sheshredsmag.com/lila-downs-14/ in She Shreds (2018 May 3) Womanhood

Women, Family

“Oh it’s very beautiful to have a very rich heritage from my Indian ancestors. My mother is Mixtec [a native tribe of Oaxaca], and my father was Scottish American. Growing up with those cultures has been enriching. Though, at first very difficult because I was rejected by one culture — in the Mexican Nation there is a lot of discrimination towards the Indian groups. So I struggled with that and with being discriminated as a Mexican. But I think music has been able to erase those boundaries. I think it’s easier to stop talking about those borders, and talk more about the music — to make music so that those borders are erased in a poetic way.”

Lila Downs (1968) Mexican American singer-songwriter

On her racial heritage in “Q&A: Lila Downs, A Sin and A Miracle” https://remezcla.com/music/lila-downs-sin-miracle-pecados-milagros-interview/ in Remezcla (c. 2011) Heritage and indigenous peoples

Making love, Beauty, Music, Way

“The idea of the State being a sort of apotheosis of the People, their ultimate expression and good, was invented for the modern age by the German philosopher, Hegel, and both Karl Marx, the father of Communism, and Mussolini, the inventor of Fascism,…”

Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) American journalist and radio broadcaster

Dorothy Thompson’s Political Guide: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
Source: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
p. 102

People, Age, Communication, Idea

“The fathers of American Democracy had no exaggerated respect for the State, because they were pre-eminently men of reason and common sense. They never, for instance, identified the State with the People. They knew that the State is, by very definition, an instrument of oppression and coercion, and their idea was to make it strong enough to keep order and ward off enemies, and limit it otherwise very strictly.”

Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) American journalist and radio broadcaster

Men, People, Making love, Democracy

“Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate avoids hatred; for fear and the absence of hatred may well go together, and will be always attained by one who abstains from interfering with the property of his citizens and subjects or with their women. And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and manifest reason for it; but above all he must abstain from taking the property of others, for men forget more easily the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony. Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the goods of others, whereas causes for taking life are rarer and more quickly destroyed.”

Niccolo Machiavelli book The Prince

Source: The Prince (1513), Ch. 17; translated by Luigi Ricci

Love, Life, Death, Women

“There is nothing new in these lectures, but only old truths retold. But the truths are of such vivid and perennial interest that, though old, they are never stale, and, though well known, there is always something to say which seems to throw on them new light and new charm. For they touch the deepest recesses of our being, and bring the breath of heaven into the lower life of earth...
May these reminders of the ancient facts of discipleship and Masterhood nerve some to effort, encourage others to perseverance. May they help some to realize the possibility of obeying the command: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect."”

Annie Besant (1847–1933) British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator

Source: Foreword, Initiation, The Perfecting of Man (1923)

Life, Truth, Effort, Light

“Our fathers, in New England, in the Middle Colonies, and in the South, brought African slaves to America for reasons of their own, which it is impossible to justify, and useless now to censure. The God of our fathers has set them free by overruling a vast amount of human selfishness and passion in long-continued political and military conflict. Let the dead past bury its dead. Forgetting the things which are behind, let us reach forth to those things which are before.”

John Albert Broadus (1827–1895) American pastor and theologian

"As to the Colored People" (1 February 1883), as quoted in Report on Slavery and Racism in the History of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary https://sbts-wordpress-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/sbts/uploads/2018/12/Racism-and-the-Legacy-of-Slavery-Report-v4.pdf#page=6 (December 2018), by R. Albert Mohler, Jr., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, pp. 38–39

God, Passion, Past, Selfishness

“I fully declare my Opinion concerning the Principles of the Church of England, whose Members have shewed themselves so eminently Loyal in the worst of times, in Defence of my Father, and Support of my Brother, of Blessed Memory; that I will always take care to defend and support it. I will make it my Endeavour to preserve this Government both in Church and State, as it is now by Law Established; and as I will never depart from the just Rights and Prerogatives of the Crown, so I will never invade any Man's Property; and you may be sure, that having heretofore ventur'd my Life in the Defence of this Nation, I will still go as far as any Man in preserving it, in all its just Rights and Liberties.”

James II of England (1633–1701) King of England, Scotland and Ireland

Speech to Parliament https://www.british-history.ac.uk/commons-hist-proceedings/vol2/pp164-199 (22 May 1685)

Life, Making love, Law, Support

“… I had my own personal experiences with prejudice. I was the only child of color in primary school, junior high and high school. I went through all those years feeling like a freak in one all-white school after the other. The family next door wouldn't let their daughter play with me because I was Mexican. I got on a bus once in D.C. with my father, who was very dark, and they told us to go to the back of the bus, where black people had to sit in those years. All this created in me a feeling of empathy and solidarity with people of color and formed the roots of my commitment to fighting for social justice and against racism.”

Elizabeth Martinez (1925) American community organizer, activist, author, and educator

On becoming a political activist in "Unite and Overcome!" https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/spring-1997/unite-and-overcome in Teaching Tolerance (Spring 1997)

People, School, Family, Justice

“I ask you to pray for me as I exercise my being a father to you all, be assured that I will do my best to serve you all to the exclusion of no one.”

Ricardo Baccay (1961)

Baccay installed as new Tuguegarao archbishop http://usl.edu.ph/baccay-installed-as-new-tuguegarao-archbishop/ (January 28, 2020)

Exercises

“I know—as we all do—very little of the practice and the spoken and written doctrine of former times on the subject of non-resistance to evil. I knew what had been said on the subject by the fathers of the Church—Origen, Tertullian, and others—I knew too of the existence of some so-called sects of Mennonites, Herrnhuters, and Quakers, who do not allow a Christian the use of weapons, and do not enter military service; but I knew little of what had been done by these so-called sects toward expounding the question.”

Leo Tolstoy The Kingdom of God Is Within You

Preface
The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894)

Question, Evil, Time

“If pastors and theologians are asked to reflect and follow the direction indicated by the Holy Father, they are certainly not obliged to think that the proposed approach, with the preambles supporting it, are exempt from danger, nor that the advice given is appropriate. They are even fully justified in drawing the attention of the Holy See of the bishops to the serious ambiguities of the underlying doctrine and on the dangers of the proposed pastoral care.”

Louis-Marie de Blignières (1949) French traditionalist Catholic priest

Extensive Article on the problems of Amoris Laetitia -- English translation of the French original https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2016/09/extensive-article-on-problems-of-amoris.html

Support, Thinking, Drawing

“O father! I see a gleaming light.
Oh say, what may it be?”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

But the father answered never a word,
A frozen corpse was he.
St. 12.
The Wreck of the Hesperus (1842)

Light

“The father guards the nest and fans it with his pectoral fins until the children are able to shift for themselves. Then he eats them.”

Will Cuppy (1884–1949) American writer

Footnote: He does this because of his altruistic (parental) instinct. The higher one rises in the vertebrate scale the more altruistic one becomes. The higher vertebrates are just one mass of altruism.
The Three-Spined Stickleback
How to Become Extinct (1941)

Children

“I too died. But in the depth of my oblivion I heard Him speak and say, "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do."”

Khalil Gibran book The Madman

And His voice sought my drowned spirit and I was brought back to the shore.
And I opened my eyes and I saw His white body hanging against the cloud, and His words that I had heard took the shape within me and became a new man. And I sorrowed no more.
Who would sorrow for a sea that is unveiling its face, or for a mountain that laughs in the sun?
Was it ever in the heart of man, when that heart was pierced, to say such words?
What other judge of men has released His judges? And did ever love challenge hate with power more certain of itself?
Was ever such a trumpet heard 'twixt heaven and earth?
Was it known before that the murdered had compassion on his murderers? Or that the meteor stayed his footsteps for the mole?
The seasons shall tire and the years grow old, ere they exhaust these words: "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do."
Philip: And When He Died All Mankind Died
The Madman (1918), Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)

Forgiveness

“If you want your country to be right, you have to be right. As Christ said, you must become perfect as the Father in heaven is perfect.”

Jesse Lee Peterson (1949) American radio and television host, commentator, author, and minister

WHY CHRISTIANS ARE LOSING THEIR COUNTRY https://jesseleepeterson.com/press-article/why-christians-are-losing-their-country (April 7, 2019)

Christ, Perfection, Country

“America represented to my father, as Lincoln put it, "the last, best hope of earth."”

Peter W. Schramm (1946–2015) American academic

I would like to be able to say that this made my father a remarkable man for his time and his circumstances. For, in many ways, he truly was a wonder. But this is not one of those ways. Among the Hungarians I knew—aside from those who were true believers in the Communists—this was the common sense of the subject. It was self-evident to them.
"Born American, But in the Wrong Place" (2006)

Hope

“Communists sentenced my father's father to ten years hard labor for having a small American flag in his possession (by that time he had been a leader of the social democrats for some years). At his "trial" he was asked why he had the flag. Was he a spy? He replied that it represented freedom better than any other symbol he knew, and that he had a right to have it.”

Peter W. Schramm (1946–2015) American academic

"Born American, But in the Wrong Place" (2006)

Freedom, Time

“For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.”

John the Evangelist (10–98) author of the Gospel of John; traditionally identified with John the Apostle of Jesus, John of Patmos (author o…

1 John 2:16 NIV
First Letter of John

Life, World

“And we see it in the mothers and the fathers who get up at the crack of dawn; they work two jobs and sometimes three jobs. They sacrifice every day for the furniture and — future of their children.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Remarks by President Trump at the 2017 Values Voter Summit https://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/random-words-donald-trump/5573/ (13 October 2017) 2017, October 2017

Children, Future

“I’m a flying bishop, like the Heavenly Father, often I am on travel.”

Philippos Stephanos Thottathil (1952) Indian bishop

SYRO MALANKARA INTERVIEW WITH BISHOP PHILIPOS (1) https://www.friendsoftheword.org/syro-malankara-interview-with-bishop-philipos-1/ (December 11, 2020)

Travel, Flying

“As our fathers had freed our trade there was another work to accomplish. This was to free the land from the chains of feudalism, the schools from the dominion of the priest, and the people from the deadly grip of drink.”

David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Speech in the Plait Hall, Luton (12 October 1904), quoted in The Times (13 October 1904), p. 9
Early political career

People, School, Drink

“If you’re an adult male who sees no flaws in his father, you’re an insane person.”

John Mulaney (1982) American actor and comedian

John Mulaney & Nick Kroll Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psbIKH5tqiM, 15 October 2018

Personality

“I don’t have any particular work. I pray for the Jesuits, relatives and friends. Every morning I give communion to the senior and sick fathers in the infirmary. Sometimes Jesuit fathers and brothers come to me for spiritual advice. I try my best to help them.”

Linus Nirmal Gomes (1921–2021) Roman Catholic Bishop

Centenarian Jesuit bishop inspires generations with his profound faith https://www.ucanews.com/news/centenarian-jesuit-bishop-inspires-generations-with-his-profound-faith/89539# (September 16, 2020)

Help

“There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies rather than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents.”

William Winwood Reade (1838–1875) British historian

The Martyrdom of Man (1872)

People, World

“We will not lose hope because we have the certainty that our destiny is not in the hands of a man or a superpower. Our destiny is in the hands of God, a Provident Father. It is in Him, and only in Him, that our salvation lies.”

Georges Abou Khazen (1947) Syrian bishop

Syria: Mgr. Khazen (Aleppo), “they are dividing the garments of our country” https://www.agensir.it/quotidiano/2018/2/12/syria-mgr-khazen-aleppo-they-are-dividing-the-garments-of-our-country/ (12 February 2018)

God, Hope

“I'm just a simple kid from south St. louis. I remember looking out the veranda of where the holy father lives and thinking how in the world did I get here? By the grace of God.”

Edward M. Rice (1960) Catholic bishop

Bishop Edward Rice talks about meeting Pope Benedict XVI https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/bishop-edward-rice-talks-about-meeting-pope-benedict-xvi/63-308754502 (February 27, 2013)

God, World, Thinking

“The main question is: When will Jesus inherit the Kingdom of his father?”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Question

“To be the way or the example and the light are the qualities that every leader must possess. Just like a father in the family.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Family, Way, Light

“While the Father is self-dependent, the son is completely dependent upon the Father.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Dependency

“If our petitions are sincere, we labor for what we ask; and our Father, who seeth in secret, will reward us openly.”

Mary Baker Eddy book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

Source: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 13

Secret, Sincerity

“People have this idea that I'm part of show business royalty. I cherish the relationship I had with my father, and I'd love to fulfill the fantasy. But when I was young, he was a working actor and hadn't quite made it yet.”

Michael Douglas (1944) American actor and producer

As quoted in "Michael Douglas Will Never Stop Working" in AARP (25 March 2021) https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/celebrities/info-2021/michael-douglas-interview.html

Love, People, Idea, Business

“Father is eternally tragic.”

Sakutarō Hagiwara (1886–1942) Japanese writer

"Father"
Cat Town (2014), Other Poems and Prose Poems

“The truth is, the lives of activists are much more complicated than what the novel presented. My father was not a regular man nor a regular father. He gave himself to his cause, and our relationship was forged by distance. There is no resentment. The world needs people like my father.”

Ti-Anna Wang (1989) Chinese dissident

"Daughter of imprisoned Chinese activist inspires ‘Nine Days’ by Fred Hiatt, a book about their plight" in The Washington Post https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TAgbvFpO2-kJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/daughter-of-imprisoned-chinese-activist-inspires-nine-days-by-fred-hiatt-a-book-about-their-plight/2013/04/05/67b339d0-9e03-11e2-a2db-efc5298a95e1_story.html+&cd=12&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us (5 April 2013)

People, Truth, World

“The values of freedom and democracy upon which America was founded are the same values that once inspired my father and are the ones to which he remains dedicated. Those values are not just every American’s birthright; they are the fundamental rights of all human beings.”

Ti-Anna Wang (1989) Chinese dissident

"‘A Tale of Two Girls’" in NBC https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna52173136 (11 June 2013)

Democracy, Freedom

“In Ibuza sons help their father more than they help their mother. A mother's joy is only in the name. She worries over them, looks after them when they are small; but in the actual help on the farm ,the upholding of the family name, all belong to the father.”

Buchi Emecheta (1944–2017) author

The Joys of Motherhood - https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/86920.Buchi_Emecheta.

Family, Help, Joy

“Men personalize good and evil in a multiplicity of gods and devils, but Truth students follow Jesus in recognizing the supreme Spirit in man as the "one God and Father of all."”

Charles Fillmore (1854–1948) American mystic

Source: Mysteries Of John (1946)

Men, God, Truth, Evil

“We see that Jesus taught plainly that God functions in and through man and nature instead of being a person somewhere in the skies; also that we demonstrate God by making His Spirit manifest in our life. He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.”

Charles Fillmore (1854–1948) American mystic

Source: Mysteries Of John (1946)

Life, God, Nature, Personality

“When Jesus' disciples asked Him to teach them how to pray He warned them against making a display of their praying in order to be seen of men. They should retire to their "inner chamber" and pray to the Father who sees in secret and rewards openly. Then He said, "After this manner therefore pray."”

Charles Fillmore (1854–1948) American mystic

Source: Teach Us to Pray with Cora Fillmore (1941)

Men, Secret

“All of us are out there to be servants in the same way that Jesus served the will of the Father. It seemed to me that that’s our goal, and that we’re trying to make an impact but then basically not leave a particularly big wake. You know what I mean? We come in quietly, we go out quietly.”

Joel Matthias Konzen (1950) Roman Catholic bishop

Source: An interview with Bishop Konzen https://georgiabulletin.org/news/2018/04/an-interview-with-bishop-konzen/ (19 April 2018)

Way

“God is big enough to do his own job. If God will judge our father for choosing to follow the way of our ancestors, then let God do the judging, not Eugene.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Purple Hibiscus

Source: Purple Hibiscus (2003)

God, Way

“We know most of our forefathers, all of our main Founding Fathers, were against slavery, recognized the evils of it.”

Kayleigh McEnany (1988) American political commentator and writer

Quoted by * 2021-07-06
Kayleigh McEnany Falsely Claims All The ‘Main Founding Fathers’ Opposed Slavery
Source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kayleigh-mcenany-false-slavery-claim_n_60e4986ae4b06fb1a6f0128d

Evil

“Our Heavenly Father has been good to us and this goodness needs to be shared with the less fortunate, especially at this difficult moment.”

Felix Toppo (1947)

Source: India: Ranchi Church offers free lunch to relatives of Covid-19 patients https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2021-05/india-ranchi-archdiocese-free-lunch-families-covid.html (4 May 2021)

“Indonesians must grateful for what the founding fathers have inherited through Pancasila, which stresses inclusivity in a plural society. In Indonesia, religion is challenged to learn from local cultures and not to underestimate humanity”

Adrianus Sunarko (1966) Indonesian Roman Catholic bishop

Source: Indonesian prelate becomes a theology professor https://www.ucanews.com/news/indonesian-prelate-becomes-a-theology-professor/85179 (14 May 2019)

Religion, Learning

“Could it have been anyone, or was it destiny? When I’m considering this I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, “Who knows why the fuck anything happens?””

Ben Aaronovitch book Rivers of London

Source: Rivers of London (2011; American edition title: Midnight Riot), Chapter 1, “Material Witness” (pp. 2-3)

Wisdom, Quotes, Help

“Without God, there could be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first—the most basic—expression of Americanism. Thus the Founding Fathers saw it, and thus, with God's help, it will continue to be.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)

Source: From remarks recorded for the "Back to God" Program http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=10414 of the American Legion, which was broadcast over radio and television from 8:00 – 8:30 PM on 20 February 1955

Life, God, Way, Help

“He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, “Good fences make good neighbours.””

Robert Frost Mending Wall

Source: 1910s, Mending Wall (1914)

Tree

“When I first started singing the anthem, my thoughts were always to sing it in a way that my father would like it to be sung— not just the sound, but also the intention. If you sing anything with intention, it really is hard to get tired of it.”

Mark Donnelly (1960) Canadian singer

Source: Mark Donnelly: Q&A with the slimming anthem singer https://www.canadianbusiness.com/lifestyle/mark-donnelly-qa-with-the-slimming-anthem-singer/ (March 13, 2012)

Way, Singing

“Your father was a very wise man. But you cannot acquire his wisdom by pretending to have it already.”

Lisa Goldstein (1953) fantasy and science fiction writer

Source: The Red Magician (1982), Chapter 8 (p. 121)

Wisdom

“Some day the world will need a man! I stand beside his cot at night
And wonder if I'm teaching him, as best I can, to know the right.
I am the father of a boy - his life is mine to make or mar -
And he no better can become than what my daily teachings are”

Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer

Source: Just Folks (1917), The Man To Be, lines from stanza 3.

Life, World, Boy, Night

“Catholic doctrine strongly opposes abortion since man was made by God in His image, and blessed him above all other creature. Human life is the Father's most precious gift, valued and full of dignity.”

Michael Michai Kitbunchu (1929) Catholic cardinal

Source: Catholics and Buddhists together against the legalisation of abortion https://www.asianews.it/news-en/Catholics-and-Buddhists-together-against-the-legalisation-of-abortion-7620.html (30 October 2006)

Life, God

“I fancy I hear them talking there
In an open boat, and the speech is fair.
And the boy is learning the ways of men
From the finest man in his youthful ken.
Kings, to the youngster, cannot compare
With the gentle father who's with him there.
And the greatest mind of the human race
Not for one minute could take his place.”

Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer

Source: All That Matters (1922), p.36 - A Boy And His Dad, stanza 2.

Men, Youth, Way, Boy

“The Church must always be popular. It is about the person and his relationship with God. The church that is financially well off can forget its content. We are nothing without the people. What is important is that the people connect with their God, and with the Eternal Word of the Father, who became man and walked with us. Now it is us who are trying to walk with him.”

Josu Iriondo (1938) Catholic bishop

Source: For Latin Immigrants, Church Is Home, Says Auxiliary of New York https://zenit.org/2003/11/05/for-latin-immigrants-church-is-home-says-auxiliary-of-new-york/ (5 November 2003)

God, People, Personality, Forgetting

“Father has his arm around Tereze.
She squints. My thumb
is in my mouth: my fifth autumn.
Near the copper beech
the spaniel dozes in shadows.
Not one of us does not avert his eyes.”

Louise Glück (1943–2023) American poet

Source: "Still Life", The House on Marshland (1975)

Autumn

“We looked o'er London, where men wither and choke,
Roofed in, poor souls, renouncing stars and skies,
And lore of woods and wild wind prophecies,
Yea, every voice that to their fathers spoke.”

Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832–1914) English literary critic and poet

"A Talk on Waterloo Bridge: The Last Sight of George Borrow", p. 150.
The Coming of Love and Other Poems (1897)

Men, Soul, Star

“On the pastoral level, the Cardinal should help the Holy Father as he does as a member of the universal Church.”

Francesco Monterisi (1934) Italian cardinal

Cardinal Monterisi in the footsteps of Saint Paul http://www.archivioradiovaticana.va/storico/2011/02/18/february_18,_2011/en1-462779 (12 February 2011)

Universe, Help

“Look, as a father and a grandfather — and I’m sure we all feel the same way — I understand how difficult this shortage has been for families all across the country. There is nothing more stressful than the feeling like you can’t get what your child needs — what he or she needs.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2022, June 2022, Remarks by President Biden During Virtual Meeting on Accelerating Infant Formula Production Through Operation Fly Formula

Family, Way, Feeling, Understanding

“Parents, give your children to God... there will be blessings. Give thanks to our heavenly Father for he is exceedingly generous and He will give a hundred-fold.”

Simon Peter Poh Hoon Seng (1963) Malaysian prelate

Auxiliary bishop ordained for Kuching archdiocese https://catholicnews.sg/2015/10/12/auxiliary-bishop-ordained-for-kuching-archdiocese/ (12 October 2015)

God, Children, Parent

“Remember, after all, that the Gospel is full of paradoxes, that man is himself a living paradox, and that according to the Fathers of the Church, the Incarnation is the supreme paradox.”

Henri de Lubac (1896–1991) Jesuit theologian and cardinal

Author's Preface, p. 8
Paradoxes of Faith (1987)

“The act of processing the memories I had suppressed for decades had freed me to see not just younger me, but the younger versions of my mother and father in their full dimensions. That in turn allowed me to honour everything we had been and had experienced—both the good and the bad.”

Qian Julie Wang (1987) Chinese-American writer and civil rights lawyer

"Author Q&A: Qian Julie Wang" https://www.26.org.uk/articles/interviews/author-qa-qian-julie-wang (23 December 2021)

Memory

“Therefore "there is one God," the Father, "and without Him there is none else." And when He Himself makes this declaration, He denies not the Son, but says that there is no other God; and the Son is not different from the Father.”

Tertullian (155–220) Christian theologian

Adv. Prax. 18 http://www.intratext.com/IXT/LAT0788/_P1.HTM Against Praxeas https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0317.htm Original: (la) Igitur unus deus pater, et absque eo alius non est: quod ipse inferens non filium negat sed alium deum: ceterum alius a patre filius non est.

God

“O God of Bethel! by whose hand
Thy people still are fed,
Who through this weary pilgrimage
Hast all our fathers led.”

Philip Doddridge (1702–1751) English Nonconformist leader, educator, and hymnwriter

Published in 1755, Hymns: "O God of Bethel", Chambers Dictionary of Quotations, p. 278.

God, People

“Zeus, the father of the Olympic Gods, turned mid-day into night, hiding the light of the dazzling Sun; and sore fear came upon men.”

Archilochus (-680–-645 BC) Ancient Greek lyric poet

Fragment 122

Men, God, Fear, Light

“I have been a vegetarian all my life, as has my family, including all my dogs. Even when my father, a nonvegetarian, comes home for dinner, he has to eat vegetarian fare.”

Esha Deol (1981) Indian actress

Quoted in "Sexiest Veggies" https://web.archive.org/web/20121001155636/http://www.ndtv.com/photos/entertainment/anupama-verma-sizzles-for-peta-574/slide/10, NDTV.com (1 October 2012).

Life, Family, Dogs, Home

“There is only one true wealth in all the universe. I have given you some of it. I have given your father and your mate some of it. And your friends. This wealth is living time. Time. Are we slaves because we have given you more time to live?”

Frank Herbert book The Green Brain

The Green Brain (1966)

Universe, Time, Wealth

“Who escaped the father steps T the Iowan the flight before jump pull the fiare”

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