Pastoral Resources

The nurses were all angels in my eyes.

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.

The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas.

I watch what I eat every day. I mean, who actually eats with their eyes closed?

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away.

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.