Top 68 Not The Perfect Father Quotes

#1. Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father probably and probably I am not. But go through your daily routine with hope you will be a little better in all respects, and do something meaningful

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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#2. If earthly fathers, who are sinful, ordinarily want to make their children happy, "how much more" committed is our perfect heavenly Father to our well-being and happiness?

Timothy J. Keller

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#3. If I could choose the perfect Dad
There's no one I would rather
Have Dad, than you Dad
Coz you go further, Father
Happy Birthday Father

John Walter Bratton

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#4. A man may have a perfect body, but if his emotions, mind, and will are not under the control of the Holy Spirit he will fail regularly and tragically as the husband, father, and follower God intends him to be.

Charles F. Stanley

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#5. The Spirit doesn't require our perfect performance to work with; He simply needs willingness to yield to whatever the Father wants to do.

Michael Brown

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#6. Our Father GOD is the measure by which we know the shortcomings of earthly dads and earthly clergy; for their vocation is to be His image on earth. GOD allows them to fail so that we might seek perfect fatherhood in Him.

Scott Hahn

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#7. If ye were of this world the world would love you, but I have chosen you out of the world; be ye therefore perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Honore De Balzac

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#8. I was 20 when my daughter was born, and making all these plans during my wife's pregnancy. I was going to be the perfect father. Once she was born, it was suddenly, 'Oh, my God! I'm a parent!'

Kiefer Sutherland

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#9. Younger kids, they understand that things aren't so perfect with their father or with their mother.

Paul Reiser

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#10. Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

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#11. 17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

Anonymous

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#12. So many of us limit our praying because we are not reckless in our confidence in God. In the eyes of those who do not know God, it is madness to trust Him, but when we pray in the Holy Spirit we begin to realize the resources of God, that He is our perfect heavenly Father, and we are His children.

Oswald Chambers

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#13. My hope is that my novels reflect the reality of a world where good and evil exist, imperfect people make mistakes, but a perfect Heavenly Father offers forgiveness and second chances.

Julie Klassen

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#14. Your accord and harmonious love is a hymn to Jesus Christ ... in perfect harmony, and taking your pitch from God, you may sing in unison and in one voice to the Father through Jesus Christ.

Ignatius Of Antioch

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#15. Every good & perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the Heavenly Lights.

Anonymous

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#16. Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

Roald Dahl

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#17. Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

Charles Spurgeon

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#18. God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know us best and love us most and will not leave one thing undone for our eternal welfare. Should we not love them for it and honor them first?

Ezra Taft Benson

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#19. The last thing I think I am is perfect. I'm just trying to do the best job I can. I'm trying to be the best father I can to my kids. I'm trying to do the best job I can running my business.

James Packer

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#20. Oh. Sure. It makes perfect sense. Zane is a wolf because his father is an eagle.

C.J. Milbrandt

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#21. Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was a perfect script for she and I,' inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, 'Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?'

Dick Cavett

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#22. I am just an earthly sinful father & I love my kids so much it hurts. How could I not trust a heavenly, perfect Father who loves me infinitely more than I will ever love my kids?

Francis Chan

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#23. But the holiness of Jesus was more than simply the absence of actual sin. It was also a perfect conformity to the will of His Father.

Jerry Bridges

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#24. Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work.

David B. Haight

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#25. My father says that there is only one perfect view - the view of the sky straight over our heads, and that all these views on earth are but bungled copies of it.

E. M. Forster

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#26. For a moment, I was captivated as I studied them side by side. My mother: the perfect picture of guardian excellence and decorum. My father: always capable of achieving his goals, no matter how twisted the means. Uneasily, I began to understand how I'd inherited my bizarre personality.

Richelle Mead

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#27. This is not to say that becoming a father automatically makes you a good father. Fatherhood, like marriage, is a constant struggle against your limitations and self-interests. But the urge to be a perfect father is there, because your child is a perfect gift.

Kent Nerburn

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#28. The task is simple. We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.

John D. Rockefeller

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#29. For in that perfect garden when one day entered sin,
An animal was murdered for garments made of skin.
When figs of human effort produced religious strife,
The Father tailored clothing for Adam and his wife.

Joyce Rachelle

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#30. Dad was thirsty, not given to great displays of affection, like his father and his father's father before him. A long line of self-indulgent men who couldn't give love but lived to take it, which isn't the same as receiving it. They were all in so much pain and that's always the perfect excuse.

Courtney Summers

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#31. I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him.

Woody Allen

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#32. When we remember our identity in Christ, it changes the way we see these relationships because we no longer base our worth on the approval of others but the approval we have already received from our Father through the work of His son.

Amy E. Spiegel

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#33. My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

Broderick Crawford

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#34. I don't want to make a cheap analysis, but when you have, like I did, a father incapable of showing emotion, who spends his life telling you that no one will love you if you aren't perfect, it leaves scars.

Jane Fonda

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#35. My father said, You are a spirit. Where did you die?
and we were equally alive. I thought to correct him
but he was not in his perfect mind.

Katharine Whitcomb

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#36. He's attractive, has perfect dress sense, and doesn't talk. I think I want him to father my babies. (Savannah)

Eden Summers

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#37. Our assignment is to see the dominion of God realized into people's lives. It is not an overpowering control, it is a life-giving, liberating experience with the almighty God, who is an ultimate, perfect Father who loves to bring liberty and freedom to His people.

Bill Johnson

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#38. We ought to feel in our hearts that God is our Father, and that while we make mistakes and are weak yet if we live as nearly perfect as we can all will be well with us.

Lorenzo Snow

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#39. I've been the type of father who tries desperately to be perfect but doesn't succeed all the time.

Max Von Sydow

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#40. Perfect!" Wrath bellowed. "And this is a doctor saying it
I mean, she went to medical school."
...
"And Dr. Sam told me she's delivered over fifteen thousand babies over the course of her career
"
"See!" Wrath yelled. "She knows these things. My son is perfect!

J.R. Ward

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#41. And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living.

Leo Tolstoy

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#42. You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

Eddie Vedder

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#43. Far from being a paradox, this invitation is more reasonable than that of our modern gurus, who ask their disciples to imitate them as the great man or woman who imitates no one. Jesus, by contrast, invites us to do what he himself does, to become like him a perfect imitator of God the Father.

Rene Girard

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#44. I have three wonderful children. My husband is an absolutely wonderful, perfect husband and a father, most of all.

Columba Bush

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#45. The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?

Maurice Sendak

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#46. To the world's most perfect woman. It was lucky my father was not present. Perfect is an absolute that cannot be modified, like unique or pregnant. My love for Rosie was so powerful that it had caused my brain to make a grammatical error.

Graeme Simsion

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#47. Christmas is all about surrender. It's all about the surrender of the Son to obey the perfect will of the Father and enter human history.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

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#48. All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.

Marianne Williamson

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#49. I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brother was already in the team, and my father had come to watch us. We went home, and my father died in front of me. Horribly, in about half an hour. He had a heart attack.

Anthony Browne

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#50. The discerning realize that it is not realistic to expect perfection in others when none of us is perfect ... Meaningful progress can be made only when all of us can cast the motes out of our own eyes, leave judgment to our Father in Heaven, and lose ourselves in righteous living.

Marvin J. Ashton

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#51. 46For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Anonymous

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#52. As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.

Jackie Chan

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#53. Sometimes I feel very guilty, so I don't know if I am a clear example of a perfect father, because sometimes I also just punish myself, saying I'm not doing probably the right thing at this particular moment. It's a secret.

Antonio Banderas

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#54. My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best.

Scott Eastwood

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#55. I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

Ralph Abernathy

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#56. The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily.

Thomas Merton

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#57. I think my father is nearly perfect. I think he's quite handsome, except a bit fat.

Gina Rinehart

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#58. Before i was jumped in i remember Lucky telling us how being in a gang was like having a second family ... a family who would be there when your own family wasn't. They would offer protection and security. It sounded perfect to a kid who'd lost his father.

Simone Elkeles

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#59. He's not like his father. She reconsidered this. I mean, he's not perfect. But he's not Scarface.

Chelsea Cain

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#60. It's been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds and my mother was the roots with both feet planted firmly on terra quaking firma.

Richard Paul Evans

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#61. Heavenly Father has perfect foresight, knows each of us, and knows our future. He knows what difficulties we will pass through. He sent His Son to suffer so that He would know how to succor us in all our trials.

Henry B. Eyring

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#62. God our Father and His Son Jesus Christ, with Their perfect foreknowledge, already recommended every one of you to fill your mortal probation during the most decisive period in the history of the world.

Sheri L. Dew

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#63. Father, perfect my trust;Let my spirit feel in death,That her feet are firmly setOn the rock of a living faith!

Phoebe Cary

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#64. We don't have to be perfect to experience the blessings and gifts of our Heavenly Father.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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#65. As for myself, I have found my perfect pattern in Jesus, who said, "The Father has not left Me
alone, for I always do those things that please Him." I am no longer motivated by personal ambition.
I have discovered a sweeter, purer motive: simply to please my Father.

Derek Prince

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#66. Perfection, then, is not a change in the essential character but the completion of a course. This is precisely what Jesus must have meant when he admonished his disciples and us to 'be perfect,' as our Heavenly Father is perfect.

Ravi Zacharias

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#67. Don't be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. (James 1:16-17)

Anonymous

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#68. A man doesn't need to be flawless to be a perfect father, but the commitment to his family is a precious responsibility.

Paul Young

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