Pastoral Resources

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.

Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too.

Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.

And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible.

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.

They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the Democratic Party, and therefore will do nothing, absolutely nothing to stop that flow of legal or illegal entrance into the country.

We have terrorists coming into the country both through our Northern and Southern borders.