Our father Quotes

Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers

— Theodore Roosevelt

See! This our fathers did for us.

— John Ruskin

We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

Have we the humility to thank our Father for the gift of pain?

— Elisabeth Elliot

As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.

— Julian of Norwich

God is our father, but even more is God our mother.

— Pope John Paul I

Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.

— William Pennington

Our father was an integral part of our life.

— Kunal Kapoor

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

— Alexander Pope

Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

— John Milton

The eternal everlasting God has become our Father and the moment we realize that, it transforms everything.

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

What a marvelous and wonderful thing is # prayer . Think of it. We can actually speak with our Father in # Heaven .

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The world is not given by our fathers, but borrowed from our children.

— Wendell Berry

My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.

— Jeff Bridges

All we have to do is to go onward and upward, and keep the commandments of our Father and God; and he…

— Brigham Young

We best serve our Father in Heaven by righteously influencing others and serving them.

— Richard G. Scott

Our Father in Heaven has promised us peace in times of trial and has provided a way for us to come to…

— Rex D. Pinegar

Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It…

— Sheri L. Dew

Every member of our Church is a missionary. Without the formality of a setting-apart we should be so set-apart from the ways…

— William J. Critchlow, Jr

Our love for our Father in Heaven and the Lord Jesus Christ needs to be reflected in our daily choices and actions.…

— M. Russell Ballard

“We may propose many plans, let's but remember that God can dispose our plans, propose a new and better ones and impose…

— Israelmore Ayivor

We think it would be wise in you to try to git [sic] influence by offering to print a paper in favor…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers…

— James A. Garfield

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate…

— Wendell Phillips

Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly…

— George Santayana

I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued…

— Thomas Carlyle

We are pushed forward by the social forces, reluctant and stumbling, our faces over our shoulders, clutching at every relic of the…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Baseball's time is seamless and invisible, a bubble within which players move at exactly the same pace and rhythms as all their…

— Roger Angell

Get to Know Yourself Once you start getting acquainted with yourselves, finding out who you are and where you belong and who…

— Boyd K. Packer

It's not that we have too much mother, but too little father. We can't forgive our mothers for taking the place of…

— Frank Pittman

While we tend to equate motherhood solely with maternity, in the Lord’s language, the word 'mother' has layers of meaning...Mothe rhood is…

— Sheri L. Dew

Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of what we'll feel some…

— Charles Stanley

Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our ascension into the kingdom of heaven, our return to the adoption of…

— Saint Basil

Prayer is a supernal gift of our Father in Heaven to every soul. Think of it: the absolute Supreme Being, the most…

— Richard G. Scott

Regardless of nationality, all men are brothers. God is "our Father who art in heaven." The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is…

— Ben Salmon

Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

As a newborn baby breathes and cries, so the signs of life in a newborn Christian are faith and repentance, inhaling the…

— Anonymous

By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder - infinitely prouder - to be…

— Douglas MacArthur

The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like Himself; when we have been proved in our present…

— Brigham Young

Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine…

— William M. Evarts