Pastoral Resources

They are no longer going to serve you well. You have to commit. I think the biggest word is commit. I hear women say to me all the time, and men - I want to, I want to.

I have to confess that there have been some times when I was less than glad to be a minister, and some Sundays still when I tremble under the weight of trying to speak a word for God.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.