Pastoral Resources

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

When people stop dying, they want to create wealth.

I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

People are dying who haven't had that opportunity to say yes to the Lord.

I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.

I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.

I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying.

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

Stage performing is a dying art form.