Pastoral Resources

The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.

It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.

He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.

The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience.

The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.