Pastoral Resources

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged girl. She was very difficult. You couldn't get her on the set; she didn't know the words.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.

Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.

Home is the nicest word there is.

Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.