Quotes About Understanding

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

The most important thing about being a father is being able to forgive yourself. If you don't forgive yourself, you're not going to forgive your kids, either.

Father, forgive them,' said Jesus, 'for they know not what they do' -- People of good sense whoever you may be, I will add, do not listen to them, for they know not what they say.

Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?"....I met his gaze and I did not blink. "Words of comfort," I said to my father.

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

Nothing is quite so emotional and passionate as what goes on inside of a family. People are driven to distraction by a father or a mother or a husband. Or a child.

You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway.

My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.

If you can convince me that we are one in this sense, that you are my father, and I your son; and also that I am your father, and you my son, then I can believe in the trinity.

Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.

I would beg the wise and learned fathers [of the church] to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration.

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

'My Father's Eyes' is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes.

Thank you for being interested. Doesn't sound much but it meant just about everything.

It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]

I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

My father was never anti-anything in our house.

The Holy Father has acted as the Vicar of Christ and acted like Christ himself, who never refused to talk to anyone.

A child's cry touches a father's heart.

Father-daughter relationship, is something that I think is so unique and it can't really be explained unless you have a daughter.

My father was all brain and little heart.

If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.

I think my father felt very strongly that when there was bigotry anywhere, prejudice anywhere, all of us lose out.

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.