Pastoral Resources

90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ.

Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.

It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.

I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.

That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.