Pastoral Resources

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.

There are a lot of bad worship songs, in my opinion, but there are a lot of good ones, too.

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Newspapers across the country and the world have published cartoons that have gone beyond reasonable differences of opinion and expanded into the realm of antisemitism.

The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.

Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.

Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.

I think anyone who has an opinion, and voices it, will offend someone.

There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.