Pastoral Resources

Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.