Pastoral Resources

As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.

There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.

When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famous for doing - like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating.

In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.

It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.

I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well.

I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I'm not singing well, I hope that I know it, so that I can get off the stage and leave what I have done. I hope I'll know, and if I don't, I hope somebody tells me.

Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.

God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.

Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.

To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.