Pastoral Resources

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.

It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.

It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling.

I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it.

What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.

A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam.

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.

The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.

The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream... Hang in there.

I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.