Pastoral Resources

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.

Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.

As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.

What you risk reveals what you value.

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'

We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.

I think we need to think beyond the issue of absolute risk.

If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.

My life has ever been devoted to her service from my youth up, though never before in a cause like this - a cause for which I would most cheerfully risk and lay down my life.

I don't care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn't have to hide who you are.

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

As the head of security for an airline, I can't ask my passengers to risk their lives and jump on a terrorist. This is why we need air marshals on every flight.

The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.

Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.