Pastoral Resources

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

I can remember standing in the middle of the field after the race and seeing the American flag raised and hearing 'The Star Spangled Banner' and all the people singing it. Then I walked off the field and just kind of enjoyed the feeling.

Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.

The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.

A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.

I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.

It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.

I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.