Pastoral Resources

We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David.

If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.

My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually.

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.

I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.

You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.

If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago.

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

I started singing for The Phantom in January, and we started filming in October and I sang all the way through to the next June. In fact, I was singing for about two months before I even knew I had the role.

By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from.

I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.

Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.