Holy Fathers Quotes

#1. My first-year mentor Leslie taught me that the hurrieder we go, the behinder we get.

Weam Namou

#2. My family and I are heartbroken after hearing the news that more than 100 innocent children and teachers have lost their lives.

Malala Yousafzai

#3. Fatherhood is sacred.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.

C.S. Lewis

#5. The apostle Paul very seriously advised Timothy to put some wine in his water for health's sake, but not one of the apostles nor any of the holy fathers have ever recommended putting water in wine

Benjamin Franklin

#6. You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#7. Forget organized religions. Forget scriptures. Forget Gods, Fathers, Sons and Spirits. Forget all dogmas taught by the representatives of theoretical religion, and then only you shall be able to visualize the true core of religion.

Abhijit Naskar

#8. All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility.

John Cassian

#9. I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.

Pope Leo I

#10. For the most part I write very stream of consciousness. I basically need to be recording an entire writing session because it's almost like I black out and just start singing whatever is on my mind and forget it as soon as I stop.

Beth Moore

#11. The frivolous can call me frivolous. I've always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better than I do the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.

C.P. Cavafy

#12. For my prom, I wore a white suit with a burgundy shirt, tie and cummerbund, along with white shoes, a white trilby and a cane. I was extra fly that day.

Ne-Yo

#13. Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

John Adams

#14. The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all are sinners, who need a Savior: holy, useful, honorable in their place - but sinners after all.

J.C. Ryle

#15. If anyone in word and mind does not properly and truly confess according to the holy Fathers all even to the last portion that which has been handed down and preached in the holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church of God ... let him be anathema.

Pope Martin I

#16. Maybe nothing phased her until she was beaten to death on her marble floor, and I envision a blitz attack.

Patricia Cornwell

#17. Own your failure openly, publicly, with genuine regret but absolutely no shame, and you'll reap a harvest of forgiveness, trust, respect, and connection-the things you thought you'd get by succeeding. Ironic, isn't it?

Martha Beck