Pastoral Resources

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!

Competition is a sin.

Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.

I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

My heart is like a singing bird.

I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.

I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Sin is geographical.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.

Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.