Pastoral Resources

Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of Baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

Necessity has no law.

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.

Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.