Pastoral Resources

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.

I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.

There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein.

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.

When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!

From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.