A daughter needs a loving, available, predictable father or father figure who can be counted on, whether divorced or at home. She ...needs his best paternal intentions, even if his efforts occasionally fall short. She needs his maturity and limit setting and sexual oppositeness, so that she can function with confidence in the wider world of adult love and work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My trust, Like a good parent, did beget of him... A falsehood in its contrary, as great As my trust was; which had indeed no limit, A confidence sans bound.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this Nation. Restori...ng that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that per...son's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are competent of ourselves to claim anything as coming ...from us; our competence is from God, who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Supposing the Mechanical Phase to have lasted 300 years, from 1600 to 1900, the next or Electric Phase would have a life equal to ...(the square root of 300), or about seventeen years and a half, when--that is, in 1917Mit would pass into another or Ethereal Phase, which, for half a century, science has been promising, and which would last only (the square root of 17.5), or about four years, and bring Thought to the limit of its possibilities in the year 1921. It may well be!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »