Pastoral Resources

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Word - that invisible dagger.

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.

Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.

When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.

Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.

I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation.

The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up.

I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.