Pastoral Resources

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

The first time I kissed Brad my knees went weak - I literally lost my breath!

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?

Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.

Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.

Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.

I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.

In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths.

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

She wasn't as naive and innocent as she was in the first season.

It's my first presenting role so I'll be nervous, but it's going to be great fun. I can't wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour.

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.