Pastoral Resources

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.

Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.

As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world.

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.

I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.

I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.