Pastoral Resources

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.

It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing.

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.