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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

Jesus was restrained by the Father to do only what the Father was doing, and You are to be restrained by the Spirit to do only what Jesus is doing! — Eric Ludy

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

As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy. — Al Yankovic

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

The Son f can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father [5] does, that the Son does likewise. — Anonymous

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

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. — Robert Bly

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

Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all. — John Milton

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

14And the Word became flesh, and lived among us. We gazed upon his glory, glory like that of the father's only son, full of grace and truth. — N. T. Wright

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more. — Pete Rose

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

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him. — Halle Berry

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

There are many things for which I owe gratitude to my dad. Most of all, I am grateful to the only man who could love my mother more than me. — Ron Mayes

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

Poisinet's verses are like spoiled children - loved only by their father. — Sophie Arnould

He looks a hell of a lot like me, only a fair bit older. — Steven Herrick

Derek cuddled his daughter against his shoulder and spoke in a mixture of baby words and cockney, a language only she seemed to understand. — Lisa Kleypas

In Korea, it's a tradition to inherit your father's business. Unfortunately, I'm the only son in the entire family, so they were forcing too much. — Psy

I thought about what I'd just reread in my father's book. About going out and just driving, and how you can only do it when you're young. — Anonymous

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

Nobody follows me where I go, Over the mountains or valleys below; Nobody sees where the wild winds blow, Only the Father in Heaven can know. — Maud Lindsay

It was not Death that stood before me but only Vernon Dickey, my father-in-law. — Don DeLillo

Z the Word a became flesh and b dwelt among us, c and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of d grace and e truth. — Anonymous

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

Keeping secrets from your father will only lead to trouble. — S.R. Ford

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

Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal. — Hugh Laurie

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

Everything we have - every blessing, every talent - is a gift from our Father. The only thing that's all ours is our sin. — Mark Hart

What in the world is this abomination?"
Lissa, only slightly more tactful, asked, "Adrian, is this some kind of joke? — Richelle Mead

But what is shape? Only a cup for the blazing soul that God provides us all. — Ray Bradbury

real father, his only father." I was — Dean Koontz

Mother Nature was dead, only the Father of the Fallocaust remained. — Quil Carter

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

Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears. — Criss Jami

Only reprobates father children and then abandon them. — Ben Shapiro

A father knows his child's heart, as only a child can know his fathers. — Kazuo Koike