Pastoral Resources

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move.

And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies, she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus.

And he that will this health deny, down among the dead men let him lie.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.

Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.