Pastoral Resources

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

One must not trifle with love.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.