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It is at this point we begin to understand what St. Hilary means in saying of the Trinity: "Eternity is in the Father, form in the Image and use in the Gift.
— Dorothy Sayers
Jesus would heal her past and take care of her todays and her tomorrows. Her Good Father held her future in His Hands.
— Rachel Hauck
I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father's clear valuing of it. I knew that was what my dad really cared about.
— Angela Duckworth
Since I carry my father's name, I believe it is my responsibility to use that name as he would have to support the causes that were so dear to his heart. Dad strongly supported Huckabee when no one thought that he had any chance to succeed in the presidential race.
— Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Family really meant almost nothing to me for many years but then, to my enormous surprise, when I met my partner James I found myself re-engaging and re-connecting. My mother died in 1977 but I got to know my father as an adult, and he got on well with James. A rapprochement with my whole family followed.
— David Starkey
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
— Joseph Addison
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.
— Barack Obama
He is our Father - the Father of our Spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we are, and is now an exalted being.
— Brigham Young
A girl's father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential.
— David Jeremiah
When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.
— Marilyn Monroe
God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves.
— St. John Chrysostom
No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
— St. Augustine