#father

What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?" I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ. "Sonovabitch." "To his face?" she asked. "I never see his face." "He wears a mask?" "In a way, yes. Of stone. Of absolute stone. ↗

— Erich Segal

#love

God is never angry for His sake, only for ours. ↗

— St. Thomas Aquinas

#father #god #love #anger

[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#father-and-son #love

My dad kept giving me "love pats." Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are administered on the knee, shoulder, and arm. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#love #love

Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#don #godfather #mario #puzo #vito

She didn't have a daddy?" I asked. "No." "Did you have a daddy?" "You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never went in for that sort of thing. You only need men if you want to breed more men. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#fathers #single-parenting #love

Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness of their being children, and therefore of having to ask and give thanks for things. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#christ #christian-religion #christianity #god-father #god-son

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#father #god #judge #justice #religion

Dumbledore had not raised his voice, he did not even sound angry, but Harry would have preferred him to yell; this cold disappointment was worse than anything. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#father

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. ↗

— Herodotus

#bury #fathers #peace #sons #their