#fatherhood

Of all the titles that I've been privileged to have, the title of 'dad' has always been the best. ↗

— Ken Norton

#family-values #fatherhood #family

A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God? ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#teacher

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

— Bill Cosby

#fatherhood #love #most #present #pretending

Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice. ↗

— Dwyane Wade

#could #fatherhood #glad #happen #i

Abba is not Hebrew, the language of liturgy, but Aramaic, the language of home and everyday life … We need to be wary of the suggestion … that the correct translation of Abba is ‘Daddy.’ Abba is the intimate word of a family circle where that obedient reverence was at the heart of the relationship, whereas Daddy is the familiar word of a family circle from which all thoughts of reverence and obedience have largely disappeared … The best English translation of Abba is simply ‘Dear Father. ↗

— Thomas A. Smail

#christianity #daddy #fatherhood #reverence #translation

I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids forever. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#bang #could #fatherhood #forever #i

Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much. ↗

— Tom Sizemore

#change #fatherhood #in the beginning #me #much

He was not being courageous as he bore the freezing stream for his wife and children. He simply chose between the lesser of two evils—the pain and suffering he would endure in the river, a physical pain that he could stand to bear, or the pain and suffering he would feel if he had to watch his family wade across and freeze. It was not a decision. The choice had already been made the moment Ole proposed marriage to his wife and welcomed these beautiful daughters into the world. ↗

— Sage Steadman

#family #fatherhood #love #sacrifice #beauty

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father. ↗

— Donald Miller

#fatherhood #fear #love #love

Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command … but … attempts … to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the created world, placing in doubt the truth about God who is Love and leaving man with only a sense of the master-slave relationship. ↗

— John Paul II

#fatherhood #love #truth #love