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“He had a charm about him sometimes, a warmth that was irresistible, like sunshine. He planted Saffy triumphantly on the pavement, opened the taxi door, slung in his bag, gave a huge film-star wave,...”
“He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.”
“1. I think what haunts many people in the world is to lose something they love, something they value, and someone they care for, for me it was my father, I was losing him when I met him. I felt lif...”
“He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.”
“Your father is the only God. You can also become god but you must follow a simple rule and let that rule be made up of love.”
“Ah God! What a loving father you are!”
“God is my spiritual Father.”
“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 Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking ...”
“Now let's make Virginia Heffernan a man. Can you imagine the same kind of spittle-flecked rage directed at a busy working father who admits to feeding his kids Annie's Organic Mac & Cheese?”
“When you become a father, it changes you." Snorri spoke towards the fires glow. "You see the world in new ways. Those who are not changed were not properly men to begin with.”
“When I was small I felt like a Superhero as my father threw me up in the air.Now after reaching this success peak I unmask - Real Superhero made me Superhero!”
“My father was a man, and I know the sex pretty well.”
“Abba, Father, I adore You, I exalt You, I glorify You, I bow down before You. I worship You O God! I can't live without You. Jesus, Daddy, I You with all my heart.”
“Our prayer should address our Father with the complete understanding of Gods fatherhood”
“Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.”
“You cannot always depend on prayers to be answered the way you want them answered but you can always depend on God. God, the loving Father often denies us those things which in the end would prove ...”
“Father, in those moments of utter exasperation, help me to want You as much as I need You!”
“Keep moving forward! You don't need permission from anyone in order to move on your own father's land! Go ahead and take the lead!”
“I stand and feel an overpowering urge to forgive, because I realize that my father can't help himself, that he never could help himself, any more than he could understand himself.”
“Jesus is more interested in your heart than your ministry.”