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God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.
— Thomas Aquinas
My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.
— Louise Leakey
The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.
— Madeleine Albright
You are my only friend in the world, and I want to talk to you. Or, perhaps, be silent with you.
— G.K. Chesterton
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
The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system ... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.
— Charles Manson
Your father only has one foot on this earth. And really, really long legs ...
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Everywhere I step, I find only corners," Father whispered. "Slowly, they trap me.
— Brandon Sanderson
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
The only man who can truly handle a woman is a woman, Abban's father had said to him many times before he died. It was good advice.
— Peter V. Brett
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
— Cormac McCarthy
We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
After paying for the wedding, about the only thing a father has left to give away is the bride.
— Evan Esar
What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.
— Steve Maraboli
True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.
— Larry McMurtry
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
— Hedy Lamarr
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.
— Mary Ellen Chase
Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.
— Mark Vonnegut
If only father would be decent and die, I should be all right.
— Agatha Christie
If we can genuinely honor our mother and father we are not only at peace with ourselves but we can then give birth to our future.
— Shirley Maclaine
The only time I have ever seen my father cry in my whole life was the day he watched JFK's funeral procession on television.
— Margaret A. Salinger
True success in any endeavor can only come when the Father has initiated the activity and invited our participation.
— Priscilla Shirer
Children should have a balanced start in life: a mother and a father. I think that's the only reason to get married.
— Cicely Tyson
We need to get to the heart of each heart issue - and we can't do it. Only the Maker can. The world needs #Jesus.
— Eric Samuel Timm
Prayer to God as Father is for Christians only.
— J.I. Packer
Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity.
— Bill Cosby
Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult.
— Michel Houellebecq
I also pursue excellence, and Father told me that it can only ever be pursued, never caught - though
— Jo Walton
The future was only disasters of the past, waiting to happen anew.
— Erika Johansen
My father, an occasionally wise man, once said that we were blessed only when the gods remained ignorant of us.
— Raymond E. Feist
The best musicians know this music isn't about "schools" at all. Like my father says, "There's only one school, the school of 'Can you play?
— Wynton Marsalis
In war, her father sometimes said, you might live, you might die. But if you panic, death is the only outcome.
— Marie Rutkoski
My mother and father have also raised five boys so they know there's only so much that can be controlled.
— Henry Cavill
The only 'if' the Gospel knows is this: 'if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.' (1 John 2:1)
— Tullian Tchividjian
My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was.
— John Burnside
Gentlemen, my father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. I understand only love and liberty.
— Victor Hugo
A woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.
— Barbara Holland
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.
— Leah Ward Sears
All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility.
— John Cassian
And his father's voice replied to him. That is the only time a man can be brave.
— George R R Martin
The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept.
— Sheila Walsh
You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.
— Guillermo Del Toro
In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a woman.
— Honore De Balzac
My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.
— John C. Hawkes
I've thought of all the questions," said Father."That only means you've stopped trying to think of new ones. — Orson Scott Card
No wall can keep you safe," his father told him once, as they walked the walls of Winterfall. "A wall is only as strong as the men who defend it.
— George R R Martin
God is our Father and our God, but only in Christ Jesus.
— Martin Luther
(Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, A man who speaks but one language understands none.
— Orson Scott Card
My father was a great fan of the horses. His only regret was that I never ran in the Grand National.
— Steve Ovett
A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
He looks a hell of a lot like me, only a fair bit older.
— Steven Herrick
He was Loki, a being who only half belonged to the Gods; his father was the Wind Giant.
— Padraic Colum
I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.
— Eddie Cibrian
I mean, my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
Our father would return to see his fairest flower gone and only the weed left for him to use as he saw fit
— E.K. Johnston
given to me. Father, the only
— Brennan Manning
Tell your father I never wanted to be a rose, only ever a night-scented gilliflower, and his moon was my sun.
— Sylvie Grohne
Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?''That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him. — George R R Martin
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
I think my father is probably the best coach ever because if we talk about numbers, he's got a lot and he's only had two players.
— Serena Williams
As Father, the only authority he claims for himself is the authority of compassion.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
A father is only capable of giving what he has, and what he knows. A good father gives all of himself that is good.
— Vincent Carrella
There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing.
— Anthony Doerr
Most fathers and ... Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.
— Bill Cosby
I only saw my father twice a year. If I'd seen him all the time I'd probably have murdered him by now. He was very strict.
— Joe Strummer
What in the world is this abomination?"Lissa, only slightly more tactful, asked, "Adrian, is this some kind of joke? — Richelle Mead
real father, his only father." I was
— Dean Koontz
The unrequited love of ones' only living offspring has its own particular slow acid burn
— David Nicholls
IF A MAN is forced to choose between the truth and his father, only a fool chooses the truth.
— Greg Iles
I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.
— Donald Miller
Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Father Brown: I never said it was always wrong to enter fairyland, I only said it was always dangerous.
— G.K. Chesterton
The only way to make any sense of the United States Congress, our father told me once, is to view it as a two-hundred-year-long primate study.
— Karen Joy Fowler
My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.
— Jayne Mansfield
Only reprobates father children and then abandon them.
— Ben Shapiro
