Christian Fathers Day Quotes

• A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.

  Billy Graham

  Inspirational, Fathers Day, Father Son

  Twitter post from Jun 16, 2013

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• The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him.

  Solomon

  Fathers Day, Children, Integrity

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• My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

  Clarence Budington Kelland

  Life, Fathers Day, Children

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• The greatest gift I ever had
  Came from God; I call him Dad!

  John Walter Bratton

  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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• Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.

  Anne Geddes

  Relationship, Dad, Father

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  My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

  Jim Valvano

  Inspirational, Basketball, Daughter

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  The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

  Lydia M. Child

  Family, Fathers Day, Children

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• The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

  Confucius

  Fathers Day, Dad, Children

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  My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

  Harmon Killebrew

  Family, Fathers Day, Mother

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

  George Herbert

  Relationship, Daughter, Fathers Day

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.168

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• Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

  William Wordsworth

  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.307

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Family, Thank You, Fathers Day

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• It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

  Kent Nerburn

  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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• He's [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.

  Margaret Truman Daniel

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Growing Up

  "On Centennial, Truman Recalled In Washington" by Martin Tolchin, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1984.

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• Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.

  Max Lucado

  Bible, Kindness, Inspiration

  Max Lucado (2015). “Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life”, p.73, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.

  Erika Cosby

  Family, Fathers Day, Dad

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• Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Women

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Nov 29, 2014

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• It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

  Pope John XXIII

  Fathers Day, Children, Dad

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• Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

  Solomon

  Fathers Day, Mother, Your Mom

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• A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Fathers Day, Dad, Men

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 15, 2014

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• Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

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• Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

  Gloria Naylor

  Mother Daughter, Fathers Day, Dad

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.185, Open Road Media

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• Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

  Robert Orben

  Family, Fathers Day, Mother

  Robert Orben (2012). “2500 Jokes to Start 'Em Laughing”, p.108, Doubleday

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• Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Karma, Children, Father

  Joseph Cowley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett (2014). “The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: (Translated by Constance Garnett)”, p.547, Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

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