“Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.” WorldChristianCoursesFatherPracticeStandardsAncientPenaltiesDeath PenaltyChristian FatherAncient World Author:N. T. Wright
“Various Eastern fathers referred to the practice of married priests in their churches, offering each one of us elements for a further careful evaluation of the choice of the Latin church to connect celibacy to ordained priesthood.” ChoicesFatherChurchPracticeElementsMarriedCarefulVariousPriestsLatinOfferingEasternPriesthoodEvaluationCelibacy Author:Angelo Scola
“Fathers, I do not practice. I'm not religious in life, but when I perform "The Creation of the World" and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of "Good and Evil," then God enters in me.” WorldSoulEvilFatherReligiousPracticeCreationMy SoulGood And EvilTouchedConfrontationCreation Of The World Author:Marcel Marceau
“The world is so possessed by the power of what is and the efforts of adjustment to it, that the adolescent's rebellion, which once fought the father because his practices contradicted his own ideology, can no longer crop up. ... Psychologically, the father is ... replaced by the world of things.” WorldFatherEffortPracticeIdeologyRebellionPossessedReplacedCropsAdjustment Author:Max Horkheimer
“The most important thing, my father told me, which I have never forgotten, and which I have often put unto practice was: If you get into a quarrel with anybody, hit him first. "If you hit first, the battle is half-won," my father always said "Don't let him hit first. You hit him first." "What's more," he never forgot to say, too "Usually one blow is all you need." I found this to be true.” IfsNeedsFirstsSaidImportantFoundFatherHalfPracticeBattleImportant ThingsForgottenBlowBeing TrueQuarrels Author:Christopher Vokes
“In their censures of luxury the fathers are extremely minute and circumstantial; and among the various articles which excite their pious indignation, we may enumerate false hair, garments of any colour except white, instruments of music, vases of gold or silver, downy pillows, white bread, foreign wines, public salutations, the use of warm baths, and the practice of shaving the beard, which, according to Tertullian, is a lie against our own faces, and am impious attempt to improve the works of the Creator.” MayUseFacesLyingFatherWhitePracticeHistoryMinutesHairGoldInstrumentsWineVariousCreatorWarmBreadLuxuryColourSilverArticlesBathsBeardPillowGarmentsPiousRoman EmpireIndignationCensureShavingVasesSalutationsWhite Bread Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“As a guy develops and practices his masculinity, he is accompanied by an invisible male chorus of all the other guys, who hiss orcheer as he attempts to approximate the masculine ideal, who push him to sacrifice more of his humanity for the sake of his masculinity, and who ridicule him when he holds back. The chorus is made up of all the guy's comrades and rivals, his buddies and bosses, his male ancestors and his male cultural heroes--and above all, his father, who may have been a real person in his life, or may have existed only as the myth of the man who got away.” MenMayPersonsHas BeensMadeRealGuyHumanityFatherPracticeSacrificeHe ManHeroIdealsMalesSakeMythInvisibleBossAncestorMasculinityRidiculeMasculineRivalsBuddyOther GuysComradeChorusReal Person Author:Frank Pittman
“Make us eternal truths receive, And practice all that we believe: Give us thyself, that we may see The Father and the Son, by thee.” GivingBelieveMayGodFaithFatherPracticeSonEternalTheeThyself Author:Charlemagne