I am wounded. I am marked by old codes, which shielded me in one world and then chained me in the next. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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I think of your grandmother calling me and noting how you were growing tall and would one day try to “test me.” And I said to her that I would regard that day, should it come, as the total failure of fatherhood because if all I had over you were my hands, then I really had nothing at all. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Sons want their fathers' attention until the precise moment when fathers want their sons'. ― Fredrik Backman

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The will of God for your life is simply that you submit yourself to Him each day and say, 'Father, Your will for today is mine. You lead me today and I will follow.

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Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of love, cups of cold water, missions into all the world, healing and evangelism and justice in Jesus' name, hands raised in adoration of the Father, feet washed in company with the Son.

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My father established our relationship when I was seven years old. He looked at me and said, “You know, I brought you in this world, and I can take you out. And it don't make no difference to me, I'll make another one look just like you.

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God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.

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I knew then that I must survive for something more than survival's sake. I must survive for you. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot. - Adam Sandler

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I wanted you to know that the world in its entirety could never be found in the schools, alone, nor the streets, alone, nor in the trophy case. I wanted you to claim the whole world, as it is. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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