Pastoral Resources

In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.

Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.

The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.

I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out.

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

I am a great admirer of Sen. Frist, who is a nationally known heart surgeon and well known in Nashville as a great family man who has dedicated his life to helping others and, in that regard, he has followed in his father's footsteps.

I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.