Pastoral Resources

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

My life has been one long descent into respectability.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.