Fathers Quotes

Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.

Cesare Pavese
- Dream
- Doing
- Nothing
Their fathers had been slaughtered over the stretch of a half-century by the Persians, their mothers raped. And still they had not caved in.

Bettany Hughes
- Mother`s
- Raped
- Persians

The so-called Church Fathers are not some theologians as we know them nowadays. They were close to the teaching of the Apostles conveying the teaching of those who were close to Jesus. Their theology and wisdom is close to everyday life. We have to thank John Michael Talbot that he has been able to unearth the treasures of those times. This was only possible because he himself in his community experiences the Gospel lived out in our times.

Notker Wolf
When there is a respect for small things, there will be an even greater respect towards the bigger things. When there is no respect for small things, then neither will there be for the bigger ones. This is how the Fathers maintained Tradition.

Elder Paisios of Mount Athos
If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers honor, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only.

John Ruskin
Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.

Ernestine Rose
Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.

Thomas A. Edison
- Faith
- Brave
- Forward
Fathers should make you feel safe.

Karen Cushman
- Safe
- Fathers