Abigail Adams Quotes, Jesus Quotes, Father Quotes

I acknowledge myself a unitarian - Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father. ... There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.

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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.

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Fathers have a unique and irreplaceable role in the lives of children.

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My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.

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My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

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Struggling in my father's hands, Striving against my swaddling bands, Bound and weary, I thought best To sulk upon my mother's breast.

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Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.

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We get caught. How? Not by what we give but by what we expect. We get misery in return for our love: not from the fact that we love but from the fact that we want love in return. There is no misery where there is no want. Desire, want, is the father of all misery. Desires are bound by the laws of success and failure. Desires must bring misery.

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I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

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Jesus Christ was willing to admit every good man to the family of God. It is not the man who believes a certain something, but the man who does the will of the Father in heaven, who is right. On this basis-being right and doing right-the whole world can unite.

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Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear?

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In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

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The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

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One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

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Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.

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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

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Alternate translation: Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine, It is a pity to see you lopped off in this manner From the stock. Reckon up the prelates in the very see of Peter; And in that order of fathers see which has succeeded which. This is the rock over which the proud gates of hell prevail not.

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Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.

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They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

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Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

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