Best His Father Wisdom
318 His Father quotes by 245 unique authors
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Jesus loved the will of His Father. He embraced the limitations, the necessities, the conditions, the very chains of His humanity as He walked and…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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Like so many things Henry had wanted in life -- like his father, his marriage, his life -- it had arrived a little damaged. Imperfect.…
— Jamie Ford
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Patience means accepting that which cannot be changed and facing it with courage, grace, and faith. It means being “willing to submit to all things…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give…
— Frank Herbert
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Henry shook his head, 'I was drunk,' he said, trying to sound both ashamed and firm in this belief. He remembered the rosebush incident very…
— Anna Godbersen
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Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back to Leningrad from…
— Paullina Simons
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A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him,…
— Rebecca West
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His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his…
— Lois Lowry
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Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not…
— Jose Rizal
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Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and…
— Ahmed H. Zewail
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I thought you said that after this many years nothing should embarrass him?" Leigh said with gentle amusement. Lucian grunted. "I guess he's more sensitive…
— Lynsay Sands
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Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said,…
— Carl Hiaasen
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He'd woken up after flying from Boston to Montana to find his da cooking breakfast for them: sausage and pancakes shaped like deer. It wasn't…
— Patricia Briggs
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Sometimes it's just silent...No sound at all. 'Does that scare you?' Chad nods. 'Why?' asks his father. 'It's like something's waiting.
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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Um. Charles thinks that his wolf has chosen me as his mate." "In less than one full day?" It did sound dumb when he said…
— Patricia Briggs
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And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles…
— Homer
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Unless he had whiskey running through his veins, Willard came to the clearing every morning and evening to talk to God. Arvin didn't know which…
— Donald Ray Pollock
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Frankly, the image of his father wearing bell-bottoms, smoking a joint, and calling his mother a “totally groovy chick” was wrong on so many levels…
— Julie James
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An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that…
— C.S. Lewis
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Adrian ordered a martini, earning disapproving looks from his father and me. "It's barely noon," said Nathan. "I know," said Adrian. "I'm surprised I held…
— Richelle Mead
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If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally _all_ things. He will see to…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Wrong' training can be a very innocent thing. Consider a father who allows his child to read good books. That child may soon cease to…
— Paul Goodman
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The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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