Pastoral Resources

I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

When in doubt, punt!

We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

There can, therefore, be no doubt that Presbyterians do carry out the principle that Church power vests in the Church itself, and that the people have a right to a substantive part in its discipline and government.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

When in doubt, do it.

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.