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Children should be able to see the Gospel modeled in the way their father loves their mother with a sacrificial love ... — Alistair Begg

Our Heavenly Father wants our hearts to be knit together. That union in love is not simply an ideal. It is a necessity — Henry B. Eyring

Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I say to all fathers - be as good as you can be- because your sons and daughters will follow in your footsteps. — Duane Chapman

You are my only friend in the world, and I want to talk to you. Or, perhaps, be silent with you. — G.K. Chesterton

God is everywhere! the God who framed
Mankind to be one, mighty family,
Himself our Father, and the world our home. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps. — Ziggy Marley

Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing. — Cesare Pavese

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly. — Lawrence Welk

My father was a director, and he used to always tell me, "You should be an actress." When I was 17, he gave me a job so that I'd be in the union. — Katey Sagal

My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve. — J. C. Watts

As the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name. — Connie Chung

It doesn't matter that nobody sees your face or knows your name, my wide eyed child, my father said to me. You know it. You be it.
You are. — Patricia Raybon

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that. — Dwight Howard

My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be. — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing in that, you are only a pair of fools! — E.D.E.N. Southworth

What I didn't realize was that I didn't have to be normal--I just had to be me, my father's child, carrying out God's plan. — Nick Vujicic

I had to be an adult, be a father without a son, so for one last moment I needed to be a son who needed his mother. — Ruth Ahmed

All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters. — Baha'u'llah

I wanted to emulate my father. I wanted to be as tough as he was. I wanted to do the things that he did. I watched him. — Arnold Palmer

Maybe it's time to stop being a soldier and go home to be a father. And a husband for Deanna. I'm not sure how. — David Bellavia

My father was a small-businessman, and if he didn't get up and go to work, there would be no business. — Hillary Clinton

You can have fun with a son, But you got to be a father to a girl. — Oscar Hammerstein II

We were not sent by Father in Heaven just to be born. We were sent to endure and return to Him with honor. — Robert D. Hales

My dad and I hunted and fished together. How could I get angry at this man who took the time to be with me? — James Dobson

I pray Father that the work of my hands would be a blessing to all who I come into contact with. — Jennifer Allwood

I've been the type of father who tries desperately to be perfect but doesn't succeed all the time. — Max Von Sydow

Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard. — Jane Austen

If homes are going to survive, it will be because husbands and fathers again place their families at the highest level on their system of priorities. — James Dobson

A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love. — William Watson Purkey

Soap?"
"School of America in Paris" he explains. "SOAP".
Nice. My father sent me here to be cleansed. — Stephanie Perkins

Forget Batman: when I really thought about what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wanted to be my dad. — Paul Asay

Be the best father you can be to your children. Because nothing is more important. — Barack Obama

That's for calling your father a fool. It may be true, but it's disrespectful. Brian Fraser to teenage Jamie — Diana Gabaldon

He dreaded the sound of his father's car in the driveway at night, knowing he would have to protect his mother, and probably be beaten in the process. — John Glatt

Our journey was to be a great enterprise of balance. My father, of course, was bringing the Word of God - which fortunately weighs nothing at all. — Barbara Kingsolver

Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really. — Ziggy Marley

Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend? — Al Capp

As he lay on the couch, he reflected that he wanted to be the same kind of father someday. — Nicholas Sparks

His father was an ass and he is an ass. I imagine sooner than I should like I shall be playing uncle to a litter of asses. — T.A. Miles

We expect God to be an angry father who demands justice, but through Jesus, He gives us love and grace when we don't deserve it. — Kyle Idleman

I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused. — Guy Pearce

I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman. — Arnold Palmer

We need you to be a father who can claim for himself the authority of true compassion. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal. — Loudon Wainwright III

A son's responsibility isn't to be like his father, but to be better than him. — Jo Nesbo

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be. — Robert Mapplethorpe

Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.' — Chelsea Clinton

When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work. — Clint Eastwood

I will always be your father . . . and I wish to God I wasn't. — Nalini Singh

Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. — Dorothy Salisbury Davis

By profession I am a Soldier & take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father. — Douglas MacArthur

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems. — Stephen King

There aren't many fathers around here ... If someone is old enough to father a child, he should be old enough to help bring it up. — John Redwood

I am one of four girls and was inspired by my father to dream big. Some girls want to be doctors, but I wanted to run a company. — Denise Morrison

I think of drug dealers like I think of my father - never really there when you want them to be. — Kris Kidd

My daughter genuinely asked me to hand her the basketball bat. I might be failing as a father. — Greg Behrendt

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress. — Laura Linney

I hope you grow up to be as good a mother as your father — Robert Rankin

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. — Samuel Butler

Tell my father I wish to be his son. -Michael Corleone — Mario Puzo

After one is right with God and pleases God, the next most important thing in all the world is to be right with one's own father and mother. — John R. Rice

I didn't have a father when I was growing up, and I vowed to be there with my kids. — Kenyon Martin

To my father. Thank you for teaching me that we all deserve to be forgiven. — Cassia Leo

There were some things I needed to learn." "How to be brave?" my father says quietly. "How to be selfless," I say. "Often they're the same thing. — Veronica Roth

You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son. — Michael Reagan

Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools. — David Soul

It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that. — Nicole Richie

What thing, in honor, had my father lost,
That need to be revived and breathed in me? — William Shakespeare

Then maybe Roman will be able to forgive me."
"I believe he will." Father Andrew glanced at Connor. "Can you forgive yourself? — Kerrelyn Sparks

My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor. — Ruth Reichl

Be careful that you don't give charitable gifts before men to be seen by them, otherwise you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — Frederick Hoehn

Soaking is also positioning yourself for an encounter with God, to be with Him. You do the positioning, He does the encounter. — Linda Boone

Jesus came to be with the Father for an interlude before his betrayal, but found hell rather than heaven opened before him, and he staggered. — William Lane

Hyrtacides pummeled his thighs and groaned and bit his lip and said: "O Father Zeus, you, even you, turn out to be a liar." [bk.12] — Homer

Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in. — Peter Fonda

My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him. — Sara Maitland

My father used to be away for months at a time, and he'd never leave any money for food, so my brother and I had to go out and nick it. — Norman Wisdom

Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you. — N.D. Wilson

One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity. — Jeff Raikes

All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father. — Mother Teresa

It is much easier to become a father than to be one. — Kent Nerburn

I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis. — Phil Collins

My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.' — Action Bronson

A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father. — Lois Greiman

I suppose I should say something negative about vampires living in sin," Father Markus said, "but that seems to be the least of your problems. — MaryJanice Davidson

If you're going to be a father and whatnot, yeah, you better be responsible about it as best you can. — Ben Mendelsohn

It's something families could do together. They can be passed on from father to son, or father to daughter. — Don Williams

The father's role, he says, is to provide the mother with the peace and security she needs to be a good enough mother. — Massimilla Harris

I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day. — Mike Tyson

I knew I wanted to be a father; I didn't know it was going to be this awesome or that my kid would come out so beautiful and lovely. — Mike Myers

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation. — Ann Curry

I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family. — Ricky Martin

If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence — George MacDonald

I wanted to be respected and to be loved. I longed for a man, like my father, to come and take me away from it all. — Nicci Greene

Father can be the person you most hate and most fear, yes, but deep down you expect that he'll be the one to save you. — Julianna Baggott

I'm done waiting for someone, even my father, to save me. Today I'm the one who will be doing the saving. — Pam Bachorz

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times. — Camille Paglia

Tell your father I never wanted to be a rose, only ever a night-scented gilliflower, and his moon was my sun. — Sylvie Grohne

I feel so blessed to be alive and so blessed to have to have a father that loves me no matter how much wrong I do in this world. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett