Pastoral Resources

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent as a prelude to a long-term or permanent extension, and that would hurt economic recovery as well by undermining confidence that we're prepared to make a commitment today to bring down our future deficits.

Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.

I didn't really feel I was being hurt, but you could feel it.

I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book.

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

There's nobody in show business that I dislike so I wouldn't want to get in there to hurt anybody.

Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.

One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.

All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.

I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.

I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem.

My first quote was, I don't want to hurt God's people. Jim Bakker's quote was, I was set up by a female.

I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church.

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.

Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt.

And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons.

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.