Quotes About Christian Fathers

#1. Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

N. T. Wright

#2. Great. This girl was going to seriously mess with my ability to stay on parole. ~Maggie Mae Castro

Beth Yarnall

#3. Megadeth is a legend, and I'm not gonna cheapen it like some of these bands that keep going long after they should.

Dave Mustaine

#4. I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.

Mark Twain

#5. When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied?

Charles Spurgeon

#6. And despite what the loudmouth liberal lunatics squawk, our Founding Fathers fully intended for the United States of America to be a Christian nation. Always has been, still is, forever should be.

Captain Chris

#7. That such a perspective of the Declaration's 'Creator God' should sound so foreign and controversial to people today is a tragic and striking sign of how far we are removed from the thinking of our colonial fathers.

Pat Swindall

#8. Hence forms of social production that preceded the bourgeois form, are treated by the bourgeoisie in much the same way as the Fathers of the Church treated pre-Christian religions.[46]

Karl Marx

#9. A quarterback that goes out and performs for you and is a franchise quarterback is more valuable than a player playing another position, but there's a lot more risk there. It's a more difficult position to play, and there are lot more failures.

Bob McNair

#10. For if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more the spiritual? ... If this virtue of charity has been overlooked, a man will lose any fruit of salvation in any good he may do.

Pope Gregory VII

#11. Father of fathers!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be.

Shannon L. Alder

#13. You can't really think hard about what you're doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn't see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling.

Robert M. Pirsig

#14. The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and less observation, and more and more calculation ... But the facts which are accepted by virtue of these tests are not actually observed at all.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#15. You can look forward with hope, because one day there will be no more separation, no more scars, and no more suffering in My Fathers House. It's the home of your dreams!

Anne Graham Lotz

#16. It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They knew that religious principles provided morality and self-control - the lifeblood for the survival of any self-governing community.

David Barton

#17. The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible. ["The Power of Christian Young Men", Address at the Young Men's Christian Association's Celebration, Pittsburgh, October 24, 1914]

Woodrow Wilson

#18. The Alexandrian Mystics' emphasis on silent prayer gave their teachings interior depth missing from Western theology today.

Amos Smith

#19. Her laughter changed her voice from wind chimes to the jingling of sleigh bells.

Leland Dirks

#20. The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.

Norman Vincent Peale

#21. Tis a lesson you should heed:Try, try, try again.If at first you don't succeed,Try, try, try again.[2]

William Edward Hickson

#22. At some point in life, we learn our limitations, the distances we can we can travel and the boarders we will never cross. And we go from there.

Robert Cormier

#23. The Christian test was a willingness to believe in the one Jesus Christ and His Message of salvation. What was demanded was not criticism but credulity. The Church Fathers observed that in the realm of thought only heresy had a history.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#24. Someone, I thought, knew where Ice-Spite was hidden. And I would find her.

Bernard Cornwell

#25. English churchmen have long gazed with love on the primitive church as the ideal of Christian perfection, the Eden wherein the first fathers of their faith walked blameless before God and passionless towards each other.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#26. Fatherhood is sacred.

Lailah Gifty Akita