Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Fathers

• The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Positive, Forgiveness, Respect

• I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Father, Religion, Dignity

  Benjamin Franklin (1836). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.2

• I imagine it great vanity in me to suppose that the Supremely Perfect does in the least regard such an inconsiderable nothing as man. More especially, since it is impossible for me to have any positive, clear idea of that which is infinite and incomprehensible, I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  God, Religious, Father

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

• The apostle Paul very seriously advised Timothy to put some wine in his water for health's sake, but not one of the apostles nor any of the holy fathers have ever recommended putting water in wine

  Benjamin Franklin

  Father, Wine, Water

• A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Brother, Father

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Religious, Father, Saws

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.370, Penguin

• O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Powerful, Father

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1850). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Published Verbatim from the Original Manuscript, by His Grandson, William Temple Franklin”, p.79

• I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Father, School, Son

  Source: www.foundingfatherquotes.com

• My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Father, Book, Library

  Source: www.foundingfatherquotes.com

• Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Father, Goodness, Grandfather

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.27, Nayika Publishing

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