In an ideal world, yes I would like to be able to say that, too,
about fathers as well as mothers, so yes.
I'm guessing from your Ted talk you might like to know
about her father as well.
This is especially clear as Penn learns more
about his father as both a lawman and a person.
I guess I should just admit it: this will be as much
about my father as it is about me.
Not exact matches
In the film, Huajian chairman Zhang Huarong stands before neat rows of Ethiopian workers singing a song
about unity, describing himself
as a
father to his employees, who «like me very much.»
As a
father of girls he felt remorseful for the comment and ended up talking with Crosby
about championing female founders.
About 20 years ago, Och's
father passed away around the same time
as Prince's mother died.
Corcoran doesn't talk
as much
about her
father, Edwin W. Corcoran Jr., who died in 2011.
While George Clooney's recent description of life
as a
father does not paint him
as «a mess,» except for the bit
about vomit, it does indicate he has his hands full with the two little ones.
When I decided to write
about my journey
as a single
father, I had all sorts of ideas
about what I wanted to discuss.
Schultz,
as eager a fan
as he was attending Yankee games with his
father once upon a time, wanted to hear all
about how La Russa led his team to victory.
Jeff Bezos was candid on stage, and he was happy to talk
about his upbringing, the decisions he makes
as a
father, and his perspectives on becoming an entrepreneur (both in space and here on earth).
My
father loved to talk
about the Blue Angels
as a model of excellence, and
as a college coach I modeled my team's post-game debriefs after the Blue Angels».
After years of cleaning up her party's name and trying desperately to distance it from her
father's racist and anti-Semitic outbursts, it seems that Le Pen believes she has now found the sweet spot between being mainstream enough to get votes but also being seen
as enough of an outsider to bring
about change.
I would love to move to a state with enough land and a warmer climate for my sons to ride their race bikes, my daughter to have the horse she dreams of and me to finally be at peace, I also believe that there should be someone home with the kids no matter what their ages are and
as a single Mom with no family support or
father involvement being at home for me is even more important, especially now that they are teenagers, There are no more nap times or time outs and the things you worry
about during this age are so much more dangerous than falling down and hitting their heads
as toddlers.
The
father of value investing and the entire securities analysis industry, legendary investor Benjamin Graham, wrote a considerable amount during his career
about the importance of the interest coverage ratio, especially
as it pertained to bond investors making bond selections.
Bloomberg Television's Scarlet Fu spoke with him
about his entrepreneurial journey, his work with his
father,
as well
as predictions on the future of the media and venture capital industries.
It stars Watson
as Mae, a digital babe - in - the - woods worried
about her ailing
father (Paxton) and her off - the - digital - grid platonic love interest Mercer (Ellar Coltrane, from Boyhood).
Some people now retired like my
father have the luxury of a defined benefit pension which just
about covers their basic expenses, so they can hang on to their equity portfolios
as a «top up» and not need to buy bonds at all.
(The Liberals have also mused
about reserving some parental leave exclusively for
fathers,
as is the case in Quebec.)
Certainly we don't doubt his love
as a
father... whatever other doubts we've had
about him.
As someone who has sat by the death bed of a sister,
father and mother, I full heartily agree that those looking into the thin veil that separates the living and dead, think
about their loved ones not God.
In fact the song is
about a family being split by divorce, sung
as if by a
father to his son.
We should learn from those who are dying that the best way to teach our children
about God is by loving each other wholly and forgiving each other fully - just
as each of us longs to be loved and forgiven by our mothers and
fathers, sons and daughters.
In sum, although a few apologists such
as Stephanie Coontz still insist otherwise, just
about everyone else in possession of the evidence acknowledges that the sexual revolution has weakened family ties, and that family ties (the presence of a biologically related mother and
father in the home) have turned out to be important indicators of child well - being — and more, that the broken home is not just a problem for individuals but also for society.
And then hear him pray through the excruciating pain for those who are killing him, «
Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing,» and say to his disciple
about his mother Mary, «behold thy mother,» (i.e., he was looking out for her and entrusting her into the car of his close friend, even
as he suffered).
We are talking
about a time where women were viewed
as property; owned by their
fathers until such time that the
father agreed to sell the daughter to a man when she would then be owned by her husband.
my point was a different one: if the findings show that people tend to talk
about their family before they die, then the people who are part of God's family (and thus have two families) would definitely be inclined to talk
about BOTH of their families, especially
as they are
about to meet their Heavenly
Father who is... GOD!
(
as opposed to «outsiders») There maybe other gods but to us, only our
Father in Heaven is the ONLY God we care
about and worship.
In some respects, the Reformation was
as much a debate
about the church
fathers as it was
about the Bible itself: «Whose Cyprian?»
He would just go down in history
as a hard working carpenter who took a three year vacation with some fisherman friends and who's «
father» Joseph always wondered
about his son's Roman features and blonde hair...
Just
as history brings freedom from rigid role definitions, it may also give us the freedom to think seriously again
about what it means to be not simply a unisex parent, but a mother or
father in particular.
I agree that God didn't pursue Adam to smash his face in, never suggested that or alluded to it, but there is no confusion where sin leads and there is no doubt
about the consequences off those who love their lives, they will lose it where
as those that hate their lives will find it... So to conclude, Jesus and the
father are not two different things, they are both the very same in
as much
as God desires all to be saved and has shown the way to salvation.
So let's say this movie is
about a woman whose life was shaped by love of her
father; the making of the film Mary Poppins (
as well
as the writing of the book) is
about her coming to terms with the truth
about personal love and death and all that.
I used o think
as you do
about Jesus being all those «things»,
about love, self sacrifice, compassion, etc.... But how is Jesus so loving and compassionate when according to the bible he and his
Father will throw billions of people into HELL for all eternity for simply not believing in them?
Friedrich Nietzsche expressed the point most provocatively: «
As a
father, God does not care enough
about his children: human
fathers do this better.
«For he is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility» Whenever Christians seriously grapple with the question of who should be included
as full and equal partners in the commonwealth of the God and
Father of Jesus Christ, Paul's words
about Christ having «broken down...
To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special
about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long
as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and
fathering.
It dawned on us,
as we tried to keep up with what was being discussed, that the synod
fathers were in fact talking
about our situation — Elizabeth's and mine.
We may have parted company with this group
about 4,000 years ago with Ishmael and Isaac
as their
father, Abraham lived at the beginning of the 2nd millennium..
He pointed out that «it isn't always easy today to speak
about fatherhood and, not having adequate role models, it even becomes problematic to imagine God
as a
father.»
The criticisms of the Holy
Father in recent months really have this
as their object: once again, the attacks are really not
about the man but
about the message.
Find something else and stop «grieving»... it's
about as useless
as the box of ashes from my brother,
father and mother.
First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a
Father, that the
Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only
as a cultural document, not
as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge
about modern man or present - day society.)
And just
as fathers were telling their children
about God being with them, during this feast of tabernacles, during late September, five miles away, in the little town of Bethlehem, Jesus Christ was born.
I find it hard to believe that anyone could think otherwise
about how God the
Father and God the Son felt
about the consequences they would have to pay for our sin
as somehow being a rather jolly thing to do.
Or was there something
about Elijah and his surrendered mantle that overwhelmed any secondary considerations, such
as what it would mean to rush past the fifth commandment
about honoring one's
father and mother and instead leave them in the lurch?
As to what the Scriptures have to say about homosexual orientation, my brother, you not only have to do deeper research, but most importantly approach Scripture in the Spirit of Love, as a child who knows nothing, seeking the guidance of his Fathe
As to what the Scriptures have to say
about homosexual orientation, my brother, you not only have to do deeper research, but most importantly approach Scripture in the Spirit of Love,
as a child who knows nothing, seeking the guidance of his Fathe
as a child who knows nothing, seeking the guidance of his
Father.
From him,
as from
Father, I heard nothing, so far
as I recall,
about a conflict between biblical creation and Darwinian evolution.
«Then at least,» I wrote at the time, «left to ourselves, we will be able, under the guidance of a new Holy
Father (who will, I hope and pray, see it
as his aim to complete the work of the pontificate which has just come to such an unexpected end), and with God's help, return in the light of a new Eastertide to the business of building up the Church once more, free of the attentions of the roving media protagonists who so rarely care a jot
about what, for a week or so, is currently attracting their fitful attention.»