Pastoral Resources

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

The best prayers have often more groans than words.

Your words smell of corpses.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.

I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.

Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.

I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.