Pastoral Resources

I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am.

When I'm at home I practice everyday.

People just expect you to show up, be a cartoon character of yourself, take your money and go home. But don't screw up to the point where you're gonna be out of the picture.

My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.

All he wants to do is practice and that's all he does, all day long. That's what it takes if you want to change the face of music. You've gotta be committed to it.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis.

A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

The great hope of society is in individual character.

I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.