John Calvin Quotes

Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.

John Calvin

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• Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Help

• I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Relationship

• At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Father

• I think as any mother would be she was absolutely over the moon. And actually we had quite an awkward situation because I knew and I knew that William had asked my father but I didn't know if my mother knew.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Spend

• My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Music
  • Father
  • Piano

• I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Swimming

• My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Music
  • Father

• I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.

  

  Usher
  • Father
  • Myself
  • Child

• I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Father
  • Dead
  • Very

• I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Love
  • Father
  • Girl

• My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Great
  • Father
  • Problem

• My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor. Both he and my mom were totally supportive.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Father
  • Mom

• I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Different
  • Family
  • Father

• He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Angry

• My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn't sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Money
  • Mother

• My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Art
  • Father
  • Performance

• Like the women in my family, I've found the women in my lab a hard-nosed, ambitious lot who have gone on to be faculty members at top universities. In my own family, it is my father who is prone to bursting into tears.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Women
  • Family
  • Father

• I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Father

• What really interests me is how a woman who has had a bad experience with a man comes through it and gets a new life. I feel you have to be positive. You have to say, 'Look, okay, he's ditched you, but there's life after.'

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Bad

• If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Proud
  • Voice
  • Imagine

• Oblivion eyes on a cereal box, the warm blinds of a father lost and last to know lost and last to love last boy lost you can't see even a bubble once it's popped

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Father
  • Lost
  • Eyes

• If you are still thinking about a script after five or ten years, that's a sign that it's good - not that it's stale. And the opposite is true - if everyone wants to make your movie, that's a sign that it probably sucks.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • True

• Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.

  

  John Calvin
  • Father
  • Prayers
  • Worship of God