Pastoral Resources

If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.

Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.

Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you.

You've had some terrific print information that gets everybody's attention in this town.

I have enough attention already. More, I don't really need.

During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky.

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.

Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.

I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.