Quotes by Father We often try to put God in a box. The God who fits in our boxes isn't the God & Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Aiden Wilson Tozer trying father jesus O God and Father, I repent of my sinful preoccupation with visible things. The world has been too much with me. Thou hast been here and I knew it not. I have been blind to Thy Presence. Open my eyes that I may behold Thee in and around me. For Christ's sake, Amen. Aiden Wilson Tozer too-much eye father Father, may my song today be a sweet sound in Your ears-even if in Yours alone. Amen. Aiden Wilson Tozer song sweet father Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and overpowering love in the presence of that most Ancient Mystery, that Majesty which philosophers call the first cause, but which we call our Father which art in heaven. Aiden Wilson Tozer heaven father art The Universal Presence is a fact. God is here. And He is no strange or foreign God, but the familiar Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who love has for thousands of years enfolded the sinful race of men. And always He is trying to get our attention, to reveal Himself to us, to communicate with us. We have within us the ability to know Him if we will but respond to His overtures. Aiden Wilson Tozer men father jesus It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand. Aimee Bender daughter language father Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend? Al Capp father children son If we have George W. Bush as president, we're going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president. Al Franken kind president father Those who are quick to feel disrespected often have a spiritual vacuum in their lives, because they feel disconnected to the love of their Father in Heaven. Al Gore scary spiritual father My parents were true believers in the efficacy of American constitutional democracy, and I was thoroughly inculcated with reverence for what we the people are capable of doing. The complication in that simple narrative is that as I got older, the Vietnam War shook my confidence in how our democracy was working. I ended up serving in that war, but it started with a lie, and I was very proud of my father for being one of its earliest opponents. Al Gore war father lying There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. Al Pacino father enemy rooms So (if) some cracker come and tell you 'Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,' you better hold your pocket. That ain't nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks. Al Sharpton mother mean father As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy. Al Yankovic dad able father Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father. Alafair Burke scene reading father When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I'm basically the child of Richard Dawkins. Alain de Botton grew-up father children We should all die with a sharp, brusque heart attack. My father was lucky like that. One day he went hunting. He had a good day, he killed a lot of game, he was with his best friends. He said, "Ah, I'm still a good hunter." Then he said, "I don't feel well," and in 30 seconds it was all over. Alain Resnais good-day heart father My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that. Alan Alda mother trying father Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all. Alan Bennett husband artist father It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest, and I had long ago become accustomed to being called 'Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it. Alan Bradley long-ago daughter father Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life. Alan Bradley military men father «1234567891011»