The dream thatwe are our fathers. I walked to the Brod, 41without knowing why, and looked intomy reflection in the water. I couldn’t lookaway. What was the image that pulled mein after it? What was it that I loved? Andthen I recognized it. So simple. In thewater I saw my father’s face, and that facesaw the face of its father, and so on, and soon, reflecting backward to the beginningof time, to the face of God, in whoseimage we were created. We burned withlove for ourselves, all of us, starters ofthe fire we suffered–our love was the afflictionfor which only our love was thecure . . Jonathan Safran Foer
He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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Jonathan Safran Foer
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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Cormac McCarthy
Your father is the only God. You can also become god but you must follow a simple rule and let that rule be made up of love.
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Santosh Kalwar
Ah God! What a loving father you are!
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Lailah Gifty Akita
God is my spiritual Father.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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