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“I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In fact, they don't talk about the paintings. They end up telling me the story of their life or how their father died.”

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Author:Andrew Wyeth

“My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extremely demanding, critical, calculating, exacting. When you're a young woman, I think you want to please a lot, so maybe you accept more of the criticism than you would as an older person. But criticism can be very wounding. It certainly was to me.”

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Author:Anjelica Huston

“My knees on the ground, dear father, don't let me break, please make me stronger.”

Funny Father Break Please Let Me Stronger Dear Knees

Author:Rihanna

“After one is right with God and pleases God, the next most important thing in all the world is to be right with one's own father and mother.”

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Book:The Home: Courtship, Marriage, and Children

Source: The Home: Courtship, Marriage, and Children

“Almighty Father, please stop making jerks. Amen...Break!”

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Author:Tim Dorsey

“To live as God's child is to know that you are loved by your Maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your Father. Nothing more.”

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Book:Wild Grace: What Happens When Grace Happens

Source: Wild Grace: What Happens When Grace Happens

“My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.”

Author:Ang Lee

“This feeling of accountability, which is encompassed by the first great commandment to love God, has been described by some as 'obedience to the unenforceable.' [John Fletcher Moulton.] We try to do what is right because we love and want to please our Father in Heaven, not because someone is forcing us to obey.”

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Author:Quentin L. Cook

“I desire before I leave the world, as my best legacy to my family,, my serious, solemn advice, to make choice of my God for their God. He has been my father's God, and the God of your Mother's predecessors. I solemnly charge you to make it your first care to seek after peace with God, and being reconciled, to make it your study to please God in all things.”

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Author:Robert Dabney